The issue of Jimi Hendrix and race derives most of its richness from the fact that it's usually seen as a non-issue. Hendrix's place in the history of rock couldn't be more firmly established, but ...
NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with author and Village Voice staff writer Greg Tate about his soon-to-be-released book Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience. The book explores why some ...
In the late 1950s, no one would have questioned whether Chuck Berry, Little Richard or Bo Diddley were stars of the genre known as rock and roll. But by 1970, it seemed strange that another black man, ...