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Blank on Blank -- Michael Jackson: "My singing it’s just.. I’ll just say it simple as possible: it’s just godly."

Blank on Blank
Michael Jackson interviewed during the Off the Wall photo shoot in 1979 by John Pidgeon.  They are joined by a 13-year-old Janet Jackson.

Stacey Patton on the Adrian Peterson case

CBS This Morning

Chronicle of Higher Education Reporter Stacey Patton on the Adrian Peterson case.

Noted Scholar Karla FC Holloway in the 'Left of Black' Studio with Host Mark Anthony Neal

Karla FC Holloway , the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, drops by the Left of Black studio to discuss her latest book   Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (Duke University Press) and issues of domestic violence within Black families. Professor Holloway's episode of Left of Black will air in October.

Harvard Med School Prof Cites "Racism" as Reason for Slow Response to Ebola Outbreak

PRI

Why has the global response to the Ebola outbreak been so slow? “I think it’s racism,” says Dr. Joia Mukherjee. “I think it’s easy for the world — the powerful world, who are largely non-African, non-people of color — to ignore the suffering of poor, black people," says Mukherjee, a professor at Harvard Medical School and chief medical officer at the Boston-based non-profit Partners in Health.

Ashes Discovered in Howard University Archives, Philosopher Alain Locke Finally Buried

George Michael: "John and Elvis are Dead" (live from Symphonica)

New Music: Rapsody--"Hard to Choose" (prod. 9th Wonder)

Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley: "Tensity" (1970)

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra--"Tensity" (1970)

The Return of Vinyl?: 'Record' Sales Have Jumped to 6 Million

Marketplace APM
If you think the debate over digital or analog has long been answered, then you probably have not stepped into an independent record store such as Dusty Groove in Chicago.  It is one of the nation’s top independent sellers of vinyl records, which have experienced a sales boom in the last seven years — going from 1 million to 6 million sales in 2013. This year, vinyl is likely to surpass last year’s total. 

Joe Sample Recalling Life on the Chitlin' Circuit on Marcus Miller's "Tales (Reprise)"

Joe Sample (far right) with Marcus Miller (center) and David Sanborn (2nd to left)"look I want you niggas to understand something right now, we paid $.25 cent at the front door, and we came in here to have a good time. Now it sounds to me that you guys re playing a bunch of bullshit, and we not getting our money's worth...We will take your instruments from you, whip your ass and destroy your vehicles...we will do this to you, unless you make us feel real good, real suddenly"--Joe Sample quoted on "Tales (Reprise)" from Marcus Miller, Tales (1995)