Dec 22, 2016 | Blog, In The News
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...
Jul 14, 2015 | Blog, In The News, Producer
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...
Jul 14, 2015 | Author, Blog
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...
Jul 14, 2015 | Author, Blog, Public Speaker
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...
Jul 14, 2015 | Blog, Public Speaker
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...
