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2022 Oscars: Questlove calls nominated ‘Summer of Soul’ a film that his younger self would want to see | Storytellers Spotlight!

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Los Angeles — As DJ, composer, college professor, musician, producer, and now Academy Award nominee, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson proves to be the quintessential multi-hyphenate with a deep love of storytelling. “It took me a while to realize that in my quest to be creative, I am a natural storyteller,” Questlove said. Watch his full interview with On The Red Carpet in the video player above. He said the gist of his critically acclaimed documentary “Summer of Soul” stemmed from a desire to create content that a younger version of himself…

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ABC13 VAULT: Melanie Lawson speaks with 2 students from the Weingarten’s Supermarket sit for 62th anniversary!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – A group of students who attended Texas Southern University did the unimaginable, walking and sitting at an all-white, segregated grocery lunch desk. Now, 62 years later, the two of them sat down with ABC13’s Melanie Lawson to remember the move. Loretta Williams and Dorothea Henry Miller have known each other for most of their lives, but formed a bond during the civil rights movement. See also: ABC13 VAULT: 60 years ago today, students protested to end apartheid Williams, a freshman at TSU at the time, and…

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85 years after his oratorio was silenced, Black composer gets his due!

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morning heights – Eighty-five years after composing an oration on freedom from slavery, and 79 years after his death, the black composer R. ,” in celebration of Juneteenth Riverside Church. Dett was a Harlem Renaissance composer and predecessor of enslaved Americans who fled to Canada via the Underground Railroad. His speech, “The Moses Order” first appeared on the radio in 1937, but the broadcast did not go as planned. “He was probably one of the first black composers to broadcast a classic master piece on radio,” says Liz Player, executive…

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