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August 27, 2023

Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson Made a Suggestion During the 1963 March on Washington − and It Changed a Good Speech to a Majestic Sermon on an American Dream

Bev-Freda Jackson The Conversation

Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had one of them.

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July 6, 2021

‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns

Wesley Morris The New York Times

The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

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