Vanderbilt’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are now home to a rich collection of research materials from the life and career of Yusef A. Lateef, a Grammy-winning musician who played a pioneering role in bringing Middle Eastern and Asian sounds to American jazz.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University, cancelled a series of public events after she received death threats after she gave the commencement address at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
One band member stated that their appearance was cancelled after they were criticized on social media as being “too White” to play Afrobeat music.
But none of the five Black writers were selected as winners at the March 8 ceremony in New York City.
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