Next at the Kennedy Center:"Robert Glasper's Black Radio"Friday, October 13 at 10 pm oct. With the birth of the Grammy Award-winning album, Black Radio, Robert Glasper gave rise to a
Premieres Friday, Oct. 13, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS App + Sunday, Oct. 15 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Robert Glasper, five-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and producer, invites his tightly knit community of collaborators to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his iconic, award-winning, and cross-genre revolutionary album “Black Radio.” Accompanied by Lalah Hathaway, Meshell Ndegeocello, Bilal, and many more, Glasper reimagines his seminal album and reflects on how the album has profoundly transformed black music in the decade since its conception.
The fire broke out Tuesday night in a wedding hall near the village of Qaraqosh in Hamdaniya, an area about 20 miles southeast of Mosul. Christians have lived in the area for nearly 2,000 years, but fled the Islamic State group in 2014, and only in the last couple of years have begun to return and raise families again in these small Nineveh Plain villages, local officials said.