Robert Wilkins
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In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become...
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Inspirational, Educational, Empowering
Jane Harris loved her husband. She trusted him. Her breast cancer sent him running, taking his love with him. Betrayed by a false love, she pours her heart into treatment and begins a spiral journey of discovery that may, or may not, lead to her healing. Where will the spiral of her spiritual odyssey end? Will she find the life she was, meant to lead? Will her husband get what he deserves?
Transformational,...
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In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city's famed Overton Park Band Shell. Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred McDowell, the fest had been launched in 1966 by a group of Bluff City blues fans and counterculturalists. The '69 edition -- which doubled as a celebration of Memphis' sesquicentennial -- promised the event's biggest and most ambitious lineup, one that included...
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Ragtime had a profound influence on many early blues performers who strived to reproduce its complicated piano sounds on the guitar. With its faster rhythm and good-time feel, this danceable style was performed with mesmerizing skill by blues greats such as Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis, and Blind Boy Fuller.
6) Delta blues
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"Delta blues is the cornerstone of American popular music and the bedrock of rock 'n' roll. The Delta takes in a large area ... and it was here that a variety of influences merged together and evolved into a deep, rhythmic form of music, full of feeling and passion, known as the 'blues'."