Lisha: Hi again, Willa and Harriet! So great to get to talk with you again. Willa: Oh, it’s really fun talking with you! I hope you’re both having a happy new year! Harriet: Hi, Willa and Lisha. I’m so pleased that we are able to continue our celebration of Willa’s wonderful new books, which were officially published just a few days ago!

A major new two-volume work on Michael Jackson is on the horizon, and it promises to reshape how fans, students, and scholars understand his art.

Lisha: We’re back for another sneak peak at a new two-volume book written by our very own Willa Stillwater! It’s titled Michael Jackson’s Radical Aesthetic and it is soon to be released by Routledge, one of the leading academic publishers. In our last discussion, we talked about the overall concept and structure of the book, which is an in-depth literary interpretation of Michael Jackson’s short films that has been organized chronologically.

Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?

'Save the Children' captured top '70s Black music stars like the Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye. After 50 years of languishing in a vault, it's on Netflix.

Willa: I’m very happy to be talking again with Harriet Manning, author of Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask, and Steven Paul Whitsitt, who was Michael Jackson’s personal photographer in …

Willa: I’m very excited to be joined today by Harriet Manning, who wrote one of my favorite books on Michael Jackson, and Steven Paul Whitsitt, who took some of my favorite photographs of Michael J…