Celebrate Black History Month with music
by Jim McGuinn
January 31, 2019
This Friday, we're kicking off Black History Month with a big day of programming. Starting just after midnight on February 1, we're going 24 hours with music only from black artists, ranging from soul to hip hop, rock, gospel, R&B, jazz, pop, reggae, funk, and blues, from artists whose voices and songs changed the world — from Aretha Franklin to Prince, Nas to Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Childish Gambino, Beyoncé to Stevie Wonder, and hundreds more.
It's the first time we've done this for Black History Month, and we hope you will tune in. We'll also be airing Musichead Essentials profiles on some of the most vital artists of the last century.
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