ROUTES https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html ROUTES Roots: Fats Waller | 6/1978 Don’t Block Your Blessings: Fighting Erasure and Finding Cultural Resilience ✨ Cultural Wrap-Up: Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters – April 29, 2025 Cultural Wrap-Up May 27, 2025 | Gladys Knight … Cultural Wrap-Up May 20, 2025 | Ronald Isley, Busta Rhymes, Fats Waller Cultural Wrap-Up: Willie Mays, Stevie Wonder – May 6, 2025 ✨ ROUTES | Cultural Wrap-Up – Tuesday, April 22, 2025 A Night of Jazz, Legacy, and the Unexpected at Unterfahrt Sun Ra and his Arkestra then (1992) and now (2022) AfroFuturism and Transgenerational Trauma from Slavery Past ✍🏾 Closing Reflection of The African-American Valor Series ✨ ROUTES | Cultural Wrap-Up – Friday, April 25, 2025 Cultural Wrap-Up: Janet Jackson, Hazel Scott – May 16, 2025 ✨Cultural Wrap-Up: James Brown, Friday, May 2, 2025 Cultural Wrap-Up: Stevie Wonder, Harry Wills – May 13, 2025 Transgenerational Trauma and Healing for African-Americans Sidney Poitier the Actor, Scholar, Gentleman and Diplomat Queen Mother Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Cultural Wrap-Up: Ghostface Killah – May 9, 2025 Alma Vessells John the quintessential community Queen Mother Nzinga, Ancient Ruler of present-day Angola The NCBR and the NBTF’s Queen Mother Sylvia Sprinkle Hamlin U.S. House Representative Maxine Moore Waters Faith Ringgold’s Retrospective Exhibit “American People” Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s NBT-Russian Partnership Afrofuturism Music Festival: Nicole Mitchell and Angel Bat Dawid AfroFuturism: Chimurenga Renaissance and Fatoumata Diawara “AfroFuturism”: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy Panel Discussion Harriet Tubman: A Pathway to Our Roots Comic Books, Cartooning, AfroFuturism and Women Cartoonists African-American Female Geeks and Nerds Honoring our Queen Mothers in Women’s History Month From Friends, Kudos to Fashion Legend André Leon Talley Music History Month: Congrats to African-American Musicians Stepping into the Future with Trumpeter Theo Crocker The Dance Theatre of Harlem Brought-it-on at City Center! “Paradise Square” and New Perspectives on Tap Dance Tapper Great Omar Edwards Copasetic Honorary Member Michela Marino Lerman Bill’s Place, Speakeasies and Billie Holiday on Swing Street Gateways Music Festival and African-American Classical Music The Gateways Music Festival and the Marian Anderson String Quartet Imani Winds perform at Abyssinian Baptist Church Gateways Music Festival: A Feast for the Ears and the Eyes Cultural Wrap-Up May 23, 2025 | Patti LaBelle … African-American Pianists at the Gateways Music Festival Press Freedom to Discuss Past, Current and Future Cultural Norms Ida B. Wells and Gwen Ifill: An Interview Imagined The Gateways Orchestra Brought Decades of Struggle to a Peak To Be Or Not to Be African