Role
Director • Editor • Art Direction![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fb4609b3743a4b3071dbc22639c7edd89005254b571366d1b3b3ffd1eb6cace/Screen-Shot-2021-11-11-at-11.27.43-AM.png)
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Summary
A minute long sample in a Drake song led me down a rabbit hole to the origins of the slow jam, the rise of the Black middle class in the U.S, and the serendipitous invention of the Quiet Storm radio program at Howard University in the summer of 1976.Credits
Story Editor
Animation
Associate Producer
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