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Arthur Kempton

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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