Happy Kwanzaa, dear Scorekeepers! We hope you're all safe and healthy, having a lovely, festive time with family and friends and/or taking some time to rest and get yourself ready for the year to come. This week, we're coming at you with the second installment of our 2021 retrospective. This year we've had some provocative conversations, met some amazing people, and had a lot of fun. So come along as we take a look back at the second half of this wild and wonderful year on THE SCORE! And if you like what you hear and you've got some time off to fill or need something new for your commute, be sure to go back and check out some of our older episodes from the past year. We're fun, I promise! Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Producer: Rocky Jones

Timestamps

Our Protest against The Activist (0:03:24)

Tenor Andrew Stenson Talks POC Solidarity in Opera (0:26:01)

Fire the Canon: Aida Edition w/Rebecca Blackwell (0:31:50)

Prof. Trevor Weston & The New American Sound (0:41:53)

T. Mychael Rambo on "People of the Global Majority" vs. BIPOC (0:48:16)

T. Mychael's Advice to Young Artists (0:54:07)

PB&J: Silky Nutmeg Ganache! (1:01:21)

A Pure Black Joy to End 2021 (1:09:26)

Links

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Black Opry (Website)

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