Category: Blues

🎙️ Jesse Hagopian’s New Substack: Teach Truth & Sing the Blues

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I’ve launched a new Substack newsletter called Teach Truth & Sing the Blues—and I’d love for you to be part of it. This is a space where truth-telling meets soul-singing. A space where I can share not just the public work I do—articles, essays, podcasts, and speeches—but also the creative work that doesn’t always fit into academic journals or op-ed pages.

“Where I Got My Name (Down in Mississippi)” Music Video: A family revelation turned into medicine for historical trauma on Juneteenth

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"As I continued to work on our 'Plague Blues' album over the summer, my dad Gerald Lenoir made a stunning discovery: our family was enslaved on the same plantation in Morgantown, Mississippi as the family of the legendary blues artist, J.B. Lenoir."