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by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) Here at Good Black News, we’ve decided to have some fun and make up a new holiday. With Patti LaBelle (born May 24th) and her good friend and Gemini sister Gladys Knight (born May 28th) both turning 80 over this long weekend, we’re thinking the perfect date is May 26th. In much the same way that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays were lumped…

Every year on March 18, Good Black News celebrates the day of its founding. We continue that tradition today, thirteen years after GBN’s inception. Even though this past year has been particularly challenging (details here), and led to way fewer postings on the main goodblacknews.org site as well as the cessation of the GBN Daily Drop Podcast, we are still exceedingly proud of all we’ve offered…

by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) This July, as we endure the latest triple digit temperature heatwave, or navigate flight cancellations in our attempts at a vacation, we can always count on summer music to lighten the mood and keep our heads cool in the comfort of our own backyard. So, with that in mind, we’re back again this holiday week with the latest update to our popular playlist entitled…

MUSIC MONDAY: Ultimate “Soul of the Season” Christmas Soundtrack – Deluxe Expanded Edition (LISTEN)

by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) We hope that all of you in the Good Black News family are enjoying the holiday season and all the prep that goes along with it. As many longtime readers know, Good Black News couldn’t survive the holidays without our Spotify Christmas music mixes playing in the background. So, today, we’ve updated one of our most popular playlists ever to share with you again,…

MUSIC MONDAY: “Written by Wonder, First Sung by Another” – a Stevie Wonder-Composed Playlist (LISTEN)

by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) If you are a regular listener of Good Black News’ Music Monday playlists, we’re sure you’ve noticed by now that we’ve got some serious Stevie Wonder fans in the house. In 2020, we even celebrated his 70th birthday with a whole month of fantastic playlists (some links below). And now that Mr. Wonder’s birthday week again (on this Friday the 13th), we’ve got a new…

MUSIC MONDAY: “Summer Breeze” – a Summer Songs Playlist for 2022 (LISTEN)

by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) Today on #MusicMonday, we’re celebrating the beginning of Summer 2022, which officially kicks off tomorrow. One of our most popular playlists of the last couple years was our Summer Breeze: Soulful Summer Songs playlist, which we created two years ago in the midst of the pandemic. So this year, we’ve taken that original playlist and created the ‘new and improved’…

MUSIC MONDAY: “Grammys Got Soul” – Every Best R&B Song Winner Playlist (LISTEN)

by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90) At yesterday’s Grammy Awards, power group Silk Sonic (featuring Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars) and its signature song “Leave The Door Open” had a huge night, winning in both major categories for singles — Song of the Year and Record of the Year. FYI, Silk Sonic was not nominated for Album of the Year — that Grammy went to Jon Batiste for We Are. Black artists…

#AAMAM: “Black and Proud” – Celebrating Black LGBT Musical Pioneers (LISTEN)

by Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90)

As June is both African-American Music Appreciation Month and Pride Month, and today is the anniversary of the beginning of the landmark Stonewall Riots marking the unofficial launch of the gay rights movement, Good Black News today brings you a musical playlist celebrating some of the Black LGBT musical pioneers of the contemporary music era.

Just last year,…