Sitemap - 2020 - The Nelson George Mixtape

2020: Grief was the Word

When hip hop ate R&B

Musical Moments and Movies that moved me in 2020

The Year of Breathing Dangerously

Cinematic Duos

Rip David Dinkins

A Poem About Blackness and White Supremacy

The Ten Life Lessons of Big Matt Silver - part 3

Crime Reads Essay on the back story of the novel THE DARKEST HEARTS (Akashic Books)

The Ten Lessons of Big Matt Silver - part 2

There Is No Ultimate Winner in American Politocs

The Ten Lessons of Big Matt Silver - Part 1

Link to a podcast with Brooklyn's Greenlight Books Talking my current novel The Darkest Hearts

Link to my profile of Angela Davis in the current T Magazine 'The Greats' issue

Mourning in America

How I Became Edgecombe Lenox

Water and Blessings in Tulum

Andre Harrell: Happy Born Day and RIP

Thoughts from a Soho Park Bench

Stanley Crouch RIP

Cultivate Your Muse in a Time of Chaos

RIP Coach John Thompson

Who Gets To Sign The Checks?

The D Hunter literary universe

Traveling During COVID-19

ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF

You Need A Strong Squad

Remembering Casablanca Records

Reflecting on Uptown Records

The relationship between The Darkest Hearts and The Plot Against Hip Hop

Reflecting on Richard Wright, a Literary Father Figure

The Darkest Hearts

TEKASHI 6ixX9ine & The Resilience of "Gangsta" Marketing

Fifty Greatest Bassist (and other Trash Pop Culture Rankings)

Blow in the Time of Corona

Thoughts of a Grown Ass Man

The Darkest Hearts discount

LITTLE VICTORIES: An Definition of Success

Life Isn't a Numbers Game

The Multiplicity of Their Complexity

A WORKING LIFE OF RITUAL

Kenny Gamble's Enduring Message in His Music

The Nelson George Mixtape Radio Show

WHITE MEN IN SUITS

The Real Evil

The Book that Inspired this Blog

WHERE DO YOU DANCE SANDMAN?

Spike Lee's Fluid Form

"Short Money" in the New Age of Activism

Tip of the Spear

Link to my Medium piece on the late MC, record executive and good friend Andre Harrell

After Watching the Bruce Lee 'Be Like Water' Documentary Twice

Inspirational Quotes to Start Your Monday

Minnesota state law on "accomplice liability" re three policemen uncharged in George Lloyd's death

My Introduction to Ass Power

MUSIC THAT CHANGED LIVES: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Filmore

From the intro to 'The Darkest Hearts'

Bearing Witness

FICTION: Ice, Dre and the Past That Never Ends

My first article for the Village Voice was on the pioneering Harlem MC Love Bug Star-ski

An look back at my friendship with the late record mogul Andre Harrell

The May Nelson George Mixtape show dedicated to my late father Nelson Elmer George and Andre Harrell

RIP Robert 'Rocky' Ford

An episode of the Nelson George Mixtape Radio show from March pre-lockdown

An Early 1980 Look at "Rap Music"

Looking back before going forward

Black music, black culture and America.