DOC DON MIZELL – From Law to Music and Industry and Back to Poetry
How Discussing the Call/Response in Jaki Shelton Green’s “The Messengers” Is Inspiring and Producing New Volumes of Poetry in Our Oral Tradition “Dr.” Don Mizell has been at the game of life for awhile - and he’s played it at a high level, with that black man je ne se...
A Talk With DON MIZELL, Producer Of Grammy Album Of The Year – Ray Charles’ ‘Genius Loves Company
reprinted from BRE Magazine, June 2005 Ray Charles’ ‘Genius Loves Company’ was the most important and noteworthy album of 2004 in terms of overall impact and significance to the music industry and the country. Not only because it swept the Grammys with a record eight...
Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron receiving the Lifetime achievement Grammy is entirely fitting and proper because his significance as an historic artist is indelible. He was truly brilliant as a pioneer in fusing scintillating spoken word poetry/rap with a powerful musical brew of...
Stevie Wonder’s MLK speech, written by Don Mizell
Stevie Wonder's MLK speech, written by Don Mizell, delivered on Jan 15, 1981 at the rally/march in Washington, DC Reprinted in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Sunday, February 22, 1981 January 15, 1981: Washington, D.C. Rally/March where Stevie officially launches...
My Personal Background with the Making of the National MLK Holiday
by Don Mizell I was an active participant in Stevie Wonder's campaign to create the MLK National Holiday. At that time I was working closely with him as a counselor generally and managing his newly acquired radio station KJLH-FM in Los Angeles as VP/GM/PD. KJLH played...
Remembering Dr. Donald Byrd
By Don Mizell & Primus Robinson BRE Magazine, 2013 The nature of “genius” is hard to pin down or be definitively described. The best approach to its perception may be in paraphrasing Justice Potter Stewart: “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” Or hear...
Aretha Talks Aretha – and Her New Album
A Conversation with Dr. Don Mizell After sharing the worldwide concern about the health of one of our greatest artists – Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul – I could not believe that a mere eight months later, the lady with whom I was conducting a special BRE...
The Mizell family shares a celebration of historic proportion with local community at the Old Dillard Museum in Fort Lauderdale
By Charles Moseley (8/4/2010) Isadore Mizell was a Black pioneer who came to Dania Beach, Florida at the turn of the 19th century. The family patriarch was born in 1882, 17 years after the Civil War ended. He lived to be 102 and his wife Minnie lived to be 98 and they...
Don Mizell Appreciation Day – July 31, 2010
REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER ALBERT C. JONES - BROWARD COUNTY WHEREAS, Don Mizell, executive, attorney, producer, and member of the one of the most preeminent families in South Florida, will be loaning his Grammy award for exhibit at the Old Dillard Museum in Fort...
July 31, 2010 Designated “Mizell Family Legacy Appreciation Day”
REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER ALBERT C. JONES - BROWARD COUNTY WHEREAS, the Broward Mizell Family has been one of the most influential families in South Florida for over one hundred years, and these true pioneers have been on the cutting edge in helping to provide quality...