Indigenous Soul Music: Mahoganee & Mr Bounce Back Sound Griots of the Lowcountry
For the February 2026 feature on The African American Folklorist (AAF), we’re in conversation with Mahoganee—the Gullah/Geechee Lowcountry “...
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American Indian Blood, Black American Music, and Finding Our People
On Jack Dappa Blues Radio & TV, Lamont Jack Pearley walks two trails at once: the Blues Trail and the Bloodline Trail.Beginning with the ima...
Listening Is the Work: Sound, Memory & Cultural Responsibility: Dr. Daniel Atkinson
This January episode of The African American Folklorist opens the year with a powerful conversation with Dr. Daniel E. Atkinson, independent...
Black Music History Month, the Blues, and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Cultural Memory
On Jack Dappa Blues Radio, we discuss Black Music History Month through a cultural and traditional news lens. We are not simply celebrating...
Blues Music is Black and Indigenous History: Healing on Plantation Ground
Tonight’s episode is a reflexive conversation on the importance of the Blues Music is Black History series, now expanding into the fuller tr...
Blues Music Is Black Indigenous History Cotton, Culture, Reclassification, and America’s 250th
On Jack Dappa Blues, we gathered on July 5th, 2026 — the same date Frederick Douglass delivered his historic 1852 address at Corinthian Hall...
Soul Songs, Story Objects, and the Power of Black Memory
Dr. Paulette Richards, our African American Folklorist of the Month for December 2025, brings a powerful blend of scholarship, artistry, and...
Opening Doors, Preserving Stories: A Conversation with Dr. Patricia A. Turner
What does it mean to become a folklorist? How do stories, rumors, family traditions, and everyday objects become archives of Black history?...
The Blues Found Her: Honoring Libby Rae Watson and the Keepers of the Delta Flame
Jack Dappa Blues Radio honors Libby Rae Watson—an authentic Blues woman, guitarist, songwriter, cultural witness, and keeper of Mississippi...
Brandi Waller-Pace: Music, Memory, Resistance & Decolonizing the Music Room
WHAT’S HAPPENING, BLUES PEOPLE?If you don’t know me from nothing, you know me from that statement. Every month we celebrate our African Amer...
Go Back and Fetch the Rhythm: Baba Súle Greg Wilson on Sankofa, Spirit, and Black Musical Memory
In this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, we welcome Baba Súle Greg Wilson, an American Griot, musician, author, storyteller, educator, and...
Bearing Witness: Allisa Charles-Findley on Black Advocacy, Justice, and the Legacy of Botham Jean
Presented as part of The African American Folklorist Black Advocacy Issue , the Black Advocacy Symposium brings together public testimony, c...
Ain’t No Uncle Tom in My Blues: A Conversation with The Undaunted Professor Harp
In this long-overdue episode of Jack Dappa Blues, we welcome The Undaunted Professor Harp for a deep and unflinching conversation about Blue...
The River Carried the Music: Michael L. Jones and Louisville's Black Jug Band Legacy
Join us as we celebrate Michael L. Jones, August’s African American Folklorist for the Month of August 2025, on this special episode of Jack...
His Harmonica Speaks: Billy Branch, the Blues Beyond Borders, and the Labor of Legacy
In this Deep Blues episode, we sit down with Billy Branch, Emmy Award winner, 3-time Grammy nominee, 2020 Blues Hall of Fame inductee, and l...
Chicago Beau: Blues, Black Memory, and a Lifetime of Storytelling | Jack Dappa Blues
On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues, I sit down with the legendary Chicago Beau (Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr.)—musician, author, publisher, poet...
Benjamin Hunter – Traditions, Folk & The Future of Cultural Work
What happens when a classically trained violinist reclaims the roots of Black folk, Blues, and community power? In this robust conversation,...
You Have a Home Here: A Blues People Homecoming
Tonight’s live broadcast, “You Have a Home, Part 2,” is a community update and a homecoming message for Blues People. We’re sharing what’s n...
Black Folk Belief, Hoodoo & The Blues: The Hidden Spiritual World of Blues People
Tony Kail, Memphis Hoodoo, and the Spiritual Traditions of the Black SouthWhat is Black American Folk Belief? And what does it have to do wi...
MASTER CLASS REPLAY: Locating Tribal Ancestry!
Presented by: Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation In partnership with The African American Folklorist This in-depth session br...