/tags/black-music-history black music history en-US Copyright Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:45:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-01-15/columbus-composer-mark-lomaxs-afrikan-epic-tells-400-years-of-african-american-history Four hundred years ago this year, the first African people were taken from their homelands and brought to colonial America – thus instituting slavery in… Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:45:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-01-15/columbus-composer-mark-lomaxs-afrikan-epic-tells-400-years-of-african-american-history Jennifer Hambrick