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Meditations on Black music & more by writer/photographer Craig Seymour

October 1, 1998March 10, 2017

Total – Kima, Keisha & Pam, Faith Evans – Keep The Faith, & 112 – Room 112 (review)

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September 17, 1998August 26, 2021

Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill/Hole – Celebrity Skin (Review)

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September 15, 1998July 10, 2021

Nicole – Make It Hot/Why Do Fools Fall In Love soundtrack (Review)

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September 3, 1998April 6, 2020

Kelly Price – Soul of a Woman, Mica Paris – Black Angel, MISSJONES – The Other Woman

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August 4, 1998March 10, 2017

Brandy vs. Monica: The Boy is Whose? (review)

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July 30, 1998January 11, 2019

Mary J. Blige – The Tour (Review)

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July 23, 1998August 26, 2021

Kim English – Higher Things (Review)

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June 18, 1998April 6, 2020

Diana Ross (Concert Review)

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June 2, 1998March 23, 2024

Sparkle (review)

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Craig Seymour is an acclaimed journalist who has been writing about music—mostly black music—for more than two decades. He has written for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, Paste, Spin, and other publications. He has also served as Pop Music Critic for The Buffalo News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He is the author of the biography Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross (HarperCollins, 2004), which was nominated for Best Biography by the Georgia Writers Association and Best Research in Recorded Rhythm & Blues, Soul or Gospel Music by the Association for Recorded Sound Research.

His journalistic research materials are housed as “The Craig Seymour Collection” at Indiana University's Archives of African American Music and Culture.

He wrote his first music review at age 13, while a correspondent for Newsbag, a children’s television show on WTTG in his hometown of Washington, D.C. The review was a rave of Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force’s “Planet Rock,” which is now acknowledged as an electro hip-hop classic. Unfortunately, producers would only let him play the instrumental on-air for fear that rapping would alienate the audience.

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