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"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" is a 1974 recording by #MFSB featuring vocals by #TheThreeDegrees. It was written by #GambleAndHuff as the theme for the American musical television program #SoulTrain, which specialized in #AfricanAmerican musical performers. The single was released on the #PhiladelphiaInternationalRecords label. It was the first television theme song to reach No. 1 on the #Billboard Hot 100. At the 17th Annual Grammy Awards in 1975.
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YouTubeTSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) [12" version] - MFSBBy fairfax1960
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"A term that is meant to be descriptive but that can refer to Cedric the Entertainer, Trevor Noah, Elon Musk and #ZohranMamdani is a little silly.

And not just silly but chilly. #AfricanAmerican sounds like something on a form. Or something vaguely euphemistic, as if you’re trying to avoid saying something out loud. It feels less like a term for the vibrant, nuanced bustle of being a human than like seven chalky syllables bureaucratically impervious to abbreviation. Italian Americans call themselves “Italian” for short. Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many #Black Americans opting to call themselves simply #African."

nytimes.com/2025/07/10/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | It’s Time to Let Go of ‘African American’By John McWhorter
ART | library deco

ART Tour | Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine Presents… Virtual Harlem: Public Art Tour

Take a tour—through visual imagery, text, and podcast segments—of select public artworks by artists from this dynamic constellation, found throughout Harlem’s streets, parks, and subway platforms, hosted virtually by Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine

Enter Virtual Public Art Tour The image shows a street scene in Harlem, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City.  Image Courtesy Side view of a row of elegant Harlem brownstone homes and their colorful stoops next to a sidewalk with a ginkgo tree with changing leaves on a fall day in New York City. Public Domain ImageJacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000). Harlem Street Scene, 1975. Screenprint on white wove paper, Sheet: 30 7/16 x 22 1/2 in. (77.3 x 57.2 cm) Image: 24 3/8 x 18 1/2 in. (61.9 x 47 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Robert Levinson, 1989.32. © artist or artist’s estate. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Cover Image: Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, “Building Dispatch: Aissatou Bey-Garcia of McKissack & McKissack,” Spring/Summer 2019 | Read Issue

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