Roots, The (Music Group)

June 30, 2021
Published by Salamishah Tillet at June 30, 2021
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With ‘Summer of Soul,’ Questlove Wants to Fill a Cultural Void

The year 1969 was “pivotal,” says the Rev. Al Sharpton in “Summer of Soul,” a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival, a music extravaganza that took […]
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June 30, 2021
Published by Salamishah Tillet at June 30, 2021
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With ‘Summer of Soul,’ Questlove Wants to Fill a Cultural Void

The year 1969 was “pivotal,” says the Rev. Al Sharpton in “Summer of Soul,” a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival, a music extravaganza that took […]
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September 15, 2020
Published by Matt Dellinger at September 15, 2020
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A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes

In January, the artist Hank Willis Thomas began enigmatically summoning designers, musicians and activists he knew to his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was […]
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November 1, 2017
Published by BARRY MICHAEL COOPER at November 1, 2017
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Style Q & A: The Roots’ Black Thought on Philadelphia Style. And His Beard.

Tariq Trotter, 44, a founder of the music collective the Roots (and the house band for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”), could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. […]
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