Biography
Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957 – December 7, 2021) was an American writer, musician, and producer. A long-time critic for The Village Voice, Tate focused particularly on African-American music and culture, helping to establish hip-hop as a genre worthy of music criticism. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) collected 40 of his works for the Voice and he published a sequel, Flyboy 2, in 2016. A musician himself, he was a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition and the leader of Burnt Sugar.
In 2024, Tate was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a Special Citation award.
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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
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Sidney
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The Real Michael Jackson
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
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I Am Richard Pryor
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Betty: They Say I’m Different
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Basquiat: Rage to Riches
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Two Trains Runnin'
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Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
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The Last Angel of History
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X
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Black February: Music Is an Open Door