Stax Museum of American Soul Music

With author Arthur Flowers. Featuring musicians Ekpe Abioto, Danian Jerry, Cequita Monique, Anna B. Scott, and Sheree Renee Thomas. Rickydoc’s Traveling Medicine Show features novelist Arthur Flowers, a practitioner of literary hoodoo, Syracuse University professor emeritus, leader of various nonprofits, and a performance artist in the Griotic school of African American literature. Flowers is the […]

Lecture and discussion with Dr. Earnestine Jenkins, Professor of Art History-Visual Culture Studies, University of Memphis  Saturday night on the South Side of Chicago was sacred to the many Black working class Southern transplants that called the city home. Electric blues, ice cold drinks, and the hope for finding love and companionship drew men and women […]

Panel discussion and listening session with original band members Princess Hearn, Jerome Derrickson, C. Niambi Steele, and Zach Schoenfeld In 1973, Enterprise Records, a subsidiary released a landmark LP that would, over time, help change the face of Black music. The 24-Carat Black, a group of more than a dozen young musicians from Cincinnati, and their […]