Another stunning example of Flack’s interpretive power, and of her role in curating a new pop songbook in the 1970s. She paints this modern standard — made famous with lachrymose sweetness by the ...

With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, ...

Jelal Huyler is a biracial Black poet from Oakland and born to a revolutionary Black woman. He is carrying on throughout this ...