This Bleak, Snow-Covered Masterpiece Predicted the Modern Western

This Western doesn’t try to reassure you; it just stares you in the face, daring you to blink. Most Westerns of the era — ...

AI country hit ‘Walk My Walk’ built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When an AI-generated country song called “Walk My Walk” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s country digital song sales chart this month, it was credited to a fictional artist named Breaking ...
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Bluesman Andrew Tibbs called out white bigotry in 1947

Andrew Tibbs's debut was his only single to provoke racist backlash, but he had a string of regionally successful records through Aristocrat.
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“My Ancestors Have Not Deserted Me”: The Life and Writings of Wintu Poet Alfred Gillis

After recent erasures of the historical contributions and experiences of Indigenous people from public sites, the work of an ...