Herb Boyd

Herb Boyd is a journalist, teacher, author, activist, and onetime Metro Times contributing editor. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Detroit and now lives in New York.

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Music News

How Quincy Jones achieved musical immortality

The peerless producer, composer, and connoisseur of sound passes at 91, but his legacy lives on

By Herb Boyd
Nov 5, 2024

Tags: Music News, Music, Obituary, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Malcolm X
Michigan

When Michigan State desegregated the college gridiron

MSU’s 1965-’66 football teams were the first fully to be integrated and thereby instrumental in forging a new era

By Herb Boyd
Sep 21, 2024

Tags: Michigan, History, Sports, Michigan State University, civil rights in Michigan, MSU football, Hugh “Duffy” Daugherty, Jimmy Raye, Black history in Michigan
Culture

RIP Robert L. Allen, a Black scholar in every sense of the words

The author is best known for his 1989 book The Port Chicago Mutiny, about a 1944 incident which saw 256 Black sailors unjustly court-martialed and who were recently exonerated

By Herb Boyd
Jul 19, 2024

Tags: Culture, Books, Obituary, Black history
ICYMI

R.I.P. Willie Mays, baseball immortal dead at 93

“All I ever wanted was to play baseball forever,” he said

By Herb Boyd
Jun 19, 2024

Tags: ICYMI, Obituary, Sports, Willie Mays, Major League Baseball, Negro Leagues Baseball
Metro Detroit

John Sinclair: The rebel of many causes

More memories of a Detroit iconoclast

By Herb Boyd
Apr 5, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Music, Obituary, John Sinclair, MC5, Yusef Lateef, Detroit jazz music