The Washington Post, April 21st, 1995
A symposium of writers is the last place you would expect to find anything resembling consensus or even a clearly defined topic. It did not, therefore, come as a complete surprise that Gerald Early opened a conference on "The Black Diaspora" at the Library of Congress by noting he wasn't entirely sure he understood the subject and in any case had no interest in it. The scholar recounted how a friend of his had pointed out the similarities between songs by the Kalahari bush people and a Miles Davis-John Coltrane recording, but he remained unconvinced. "I think my friend wanted to suggest someth...
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