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Nola & DC: A Musical Tale of Two Gentrified Cities
My family spent Christmas break in New Orleans. We were in the French Quarter on New Year’s Eve. We’d just dined at Mr. B’s, wandering among the daiquiri-clutching revelers competing for Mardi Gras beads along Bourbon Street when we ran
No Congas, No Go-Go
Every year for Howard University’s Homecoming, my husband and I open our home not far from the school’s Washington D.C. campus to our fellow alumni from all over the country for food, drink and fellowship until the wee hours.
Nods from SPIN magazine and the Washington Post
What an amazing way to start the new year.
SPIN magazine named Go-Go Live in the 10 Best Music Books of 2012. (Number 7!)
“Go-Go Live” was included in a roundup in Washington Post editors’ and critics’
Go-Go Live: Banned in Chevy Chase
I was joking on Twitter the day before I was scheduled to read and sign “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City” at Politics & Prose, the legendary bookstore near the Chevy Chase neighborhood,
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
My new book is “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City,” a look at Washington, D.C.’s unique musical culture published in 2012 on Duke University Press. Check out the book trailer and reviews at www.gogolives.com
Talking to Kojo Nnambdi about “Go-Go Live”
The host at the NPR local affiliate WAMU Kojo Nnambdi and I had a conversation about my book Go-Go Live. Kojo went to the same Georgetown, Guyana high school a couple of years before my
New York Times: Farewell to Chocolate City
In my essay in the New York Times Sunday Review from June 2012, I wax nostalgic about the end of Washington, D.C.’s majority-black status. This piece boiled down many of the arguments from
At Chuck Brown’s wake
Here was a WUSA segment I was on at the viewing for Chuck Brown.
I tweeted this pic of Linda Boyd, a fan of Chuck’s who last saw him perform at LaFontaine Bleu wedding
WNYC Soundcheck on Go-Go Live
Believe it or not I had already been working with a producer from WNYC’s (New York City’s NPR affiliate) for a segment on my book when news hit of Chuck Brown’s passing. So the segment
RIP CHUCK BROWN
I did not expect to take Chuck Brown’s death as hard as I did. I kept it together for an NPR interview, but then I cried and blubbered all the way driving my son
