Once upon a time the question was, ”Can a white man (or woman) play and sing the blues?” Beginning with the blues boom of the late `60s, artists like Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, Stevie… ...

Outlook When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs. I’m caught in a time loop where my white friends and acquaintances perform the same pieties over and over again.

KKK members attacked Charlie’s Place, a Black club in SC Myrtle Beach in 1950. The club ignored segregation laws and Shag dancing united Black and white people.

The basement club was cramped, and the bandstand was so small that, by the drummer’s measure, it could hardly hold a fight. The clientele included mobsters, musicians, and star performers from ...