Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. Next year the first volume of his long-awaited biography of Charlie Parker will appear.

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Statue Shows America’s Bad Side

So only “people of color” should be profiting? Stanley Crouch on how a hero has been reduced.

Stanley Crouch

Obama Loses His Cool

Why did our Spock-like president bow to public lunacy in his interview with Matt Lauer?

Stanley Crouch

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What Was Venus Thinking?

Stanley Crouch on the lacy French Open outfit that rocked the tennis world—and the culture of raunch it came out of.

Stanley Crouch

Wake Up, Tavis Smiley

With a trailblazing African-American in the White House, why does the PBS host insist on bringing lunatics together to talk about race?

Stanley Crouch

The Grim Truth About Africa

We don’t talk about the genocide in places like the Congo, writes Stanley Crouch, because we can’t face up who’s really responsible for the rape and slaughter.

Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch

Statue Shows America’s Bad Side

Obama Loses His Cool

What Was Venus Thinking?

Wake Up, Tavis Smiley

The Grim Truth About Africa

David Mills' Gift to Television

Ralph Ellison's Endless Blues

The Trouble with Soul Train

Shut Up, Scarlett!

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