Chitlin’ Circuitry
Independent black media sustained the chitlin’ circuit from its earliest days to the present, and has preserved the circuit’s earliest documents.
The Stroll
Circuit business operatives thrived not just despite racial segregation but because of it, taking advantage of Jim Crow geography.
Cherchez Les Femmes
Women worked every angle of the circuit, as performers, club owners, and agency executives, and did so with every bit of gusto the men mustered.
Vice
Mobsters, gamblers, bootleggers, pimps and roustabouts
The Birth of Rock-n-Roll
Rock was born on the road, not in a recording studio.
