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Roland Laird

Columns

Can Tyler Perry’s ‘For Colored Girls’ Resurrect BAM?

By Roland Laird

Film adaptations from black masterpieces -- and the Chitlin Circuit -- are rejuvenating America's Black Arts Movement. [30 October 2009]

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Jay-Z: The Journey of an Icon

By Roland Laird

We can debate this greatest rapper business from now until the end of time. Let's just say Jay-Z is the greatest hip-hop icon ever, and call it a day. [29 September 2009]

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Maxwell and the Soul of Neo Soul

By Roland Laird

If Dr. Martin Luther King composed songs they may very well sound like Maxwell at his best. [25 August 2009]

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