Saturday morning on WCLK's The Local Take(8am each Saturday), I catch up with PNC Bank to discuss Black History Month. For the last four years, The Local
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The great jazz pianist, Armando Anthony Chick Correa, has passed on at 79. For those who may not understand the magnitude of this loss, this man is one of the cornerstone figures in modern music. Coming out of the late 60s School Of Miles Davis, he would help guide the future of music for the next 50 years. His band, Return To Forever, was one of the most influential bands in music. Everyone from Prince to Phil Collins, from Thundercat to Robert Glasper, utilized the inspiration from him and his band to fuel their dreams. He could effortlessly move from a grand piano to a Moog synthesizer between the worlds of acoustic jazz and electric fusion. His playing was not of this world and his writing, not of this galaxy. Join me this Saturday from 6-9 pm EST on The S.O.U.L Of Jazz for a 3 hour excursion into the music of Chick Correa. We ll traverse the Seventh Galaxy and explore the musical worlds of this modern legend in jazz.
Life Love And Legacy with Dione Traci Duckett makes its debut as part of WCLK's public affairs lineup this Saturday morning at 8:30. The show will air each
Rev. Dr. Juel P. Borders-Benson, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. William Holmes Borders, Sr. from Wheat Street Baptist Church
This week on The Local Take, we join forces with PBS to support the premiere of their documentary The Black Church. I reached out to Wheat Street Baptist Church, which began in 1869. This church was led by the late Rev. Dr. Williams Holmes Borders, Sr.. I speak with his daughter Rev. Dr. Juel Borders-Benson, who grew up in the historic Wheat Street Baptist Church.
I ask her about her relationship with the church, she speaks about her family moving to Atlanta from Evanston, IL in 1937. She speaks about the church being a place where planning and strategy was mapped out. She mentions that our strongest civic leaders were born in The Black Church and that the church was a refuge for those that wanted to be free. She spoke about a documentary on the church that chronicled the church s life between 1937 and 1982. I ask her about the building and the