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    Black Power, Blaxploitation, & The Sounds of the Seventies

    How Isaac Hayes' soundtrack to Shaft ushered in an era of iconic Blaxploitation cinema.

    February 26, 2020  By Ashawnta Jackson
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    A Brief History of
    After-Hours Clubs

    How new music, new drugs, and new communities sprang up in the legal gray zone known as the 'after-hours club.'

    February 26, 2020  By Terry Williams
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    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

    February 25, 2020  By Gary Phillips
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    Pretty as a Picture

    Elizabeth Little

    "'Let’s roll,' he said when he saw me, and that was it for conversation, which was fine by me."

    February 25, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    People v. Gillette: How an Obscure Execution in the Finger Lakes Inspired Generations of Storytellers

    The Long Cultural Afterlife of a Horrifying Crime

    February 24, 2020  By S.L. McInnis
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 25

    The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    February 24, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    The Life and Work of C.W. Grafton: Crime Novelist, Lawyer, and Father to a Mystery Icon

    He's remembered now as the father of Sue Grafton. But for a brief period, he was one of crime fiction's most promising authors.

    February 21, 2020  By L. Wayne Hicks
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    These Famous Noirs and Mysteries Were Inspired by Real-Life Crimes

    Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, and other greats who found inspiration in real crimes.

    February 21, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    The Punk Rock Private Eye and the End of an Era in Downtown New York

    In 1979, as the music scene was under threat, one man captured its corruption in true noir fashion.

    February 21, 2020  By David Masciotra
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 26

    Body Heat (1981)

    February 21, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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