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A Guitar, A Cello, and the Day that Changed Music
What would it sound like if one of the world’s greatest classical cellists, and the most legendary blues guitarist of all time…jammed together?


The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records
Black Swan Records was the first major Black-owned record label in the United States.


The Almost Astronaut
In the 1960s, the U.S. was losing in the space race to the Soviet Union. So, it decided to do something no country had done: send the first Black person to space.


Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching
On August 6, 1930, two African-American teenagers were charged with the murder of a factory worker, and the rape of his wife. A mob lynched them that evening. But a third Black teen was supposed to die that day. This is his story.
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