Jazz Articles about Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield: After the Rain

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
December 26, 2010

Throughout the passageways of my youth, perhaps no other voice was as critically important. When I questioned my own existence in a predominantly white school and community, it was his voice and music that carried me through. During my saddest and most vulnerable moments, he filled me with hope and the strength to face another day. When I was locked inside the torments of my own mind, he would free me from the shackles of despair. The Reverend Andrew Young ...