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The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006)

Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 2 January 2007

JAMES BROWN was of a generation of black men—mythological in many ways—who helped define the contours of freedom and possibility for black folk in the 20th century.

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