
Visit to Virginia, Summer 2021
For a few years now, as the Black American experience has become more a part of the national consciousness, and mine, and as the debate over Civil War monuments have taken hold, I’ve been telling my friends in Philadelphia that…

James Holvay’s New, and First, EP is a Sweet Slice of Chicago Soul
If you’re a baby boomer, you’ve heard the pop classic “Kind of a Drag” by the Buckinghams a thousand times. The song’s writer, James Holvay, didn’t even know it was climbing the charts and barely acknowledged the feat when the…