Tag: kamilah cummings
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #6: April 1, 2025
I’m pleased to share that in just under two weeks, I will be crawling back out from under my rock to participate in the #PopLife40 virtual symposium celebrating 40 years of Prince and the Revolution’s Around the World in a Day, Sheila E’s Romance 1600, and the self-titled album by the Family
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #2: August 12, 2024
I did not expect to be sending out another newsletter so soon after the first one, but there’s a compelling reason for it: Recordings of this past weekend’s #Come30 virtual symposium are available to watch on Zoom Events until this Sunday, August 18 at 11:59 pm ET.
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Podcast: Something Wrong with the Machinery – Carmen Hoover on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
We’re nearing the end of our miniseries on the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference, but there are still a few treats in store–starting with today’s conversation with Carmen Hoover. Carmen is a current professor at Olympic College in Washington, and a former First Avenue employee who watched Prince conquer the world from Minneapolis in…
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Podcast: Everybody Shut Up, Listen to the Band – Felicia Holman and Harold Pride on the Salford Purple Reign Conference
Settle in, folks, because today we’ve got not one, but two presenters from this spring’s Prince conference at the University of Salford: interdisciplinary artist/activist Felicia Holman and independent scholar/activist Harold Pride. Both were part of the organic community of Black artists and academics who came together in Manchester and, each in their own way, helped to…