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Arthur Kempton, the author of Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music, is a fellow at the Institute for African-American Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (March 2006)
The Fall of The Black Empires
To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography
by Berry Gordy
Berry, Me, and Motown
by Raynoma Gordy Singleton
An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad
by Claude Andrew Clegg III
June 10, 1999 issue
The Lost Tycoons
To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography
by Berry Gordy
Berry, Me, and Motown
by Raynoma Gordy Singleton
An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad
by Claude Andrew Clegg III.
May 20, 1999 issue
How Far from Canaan?
The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
by Michael W. Harris
Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel
by Jules Schwerin
April 21, 1994 issue
Native Sons
The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring
by Terry Williams
Raw Recruits
by Alexander Wolff and Armen Keteyian
The Source: The Rap Music Decade, 1980–1990
edited by Jonathan Shecter, edited by David Mays
April 11, 1991 issue
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