University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Syracuse University
Years active
2004–present
Title
Durham City Council Member, Ward 3 (2020-2021)
Predecessor
Vernetta Alston
Successor
Leonardo Williams
Website
piercefreelon.com
Pierce Freelon is an American musician, educator, author and politician from Durham, North Carolina.[1] He is a Grammy-nominated[2] family music artist and former Durham City Council Member.[3] Freelon is the founder of Blackspace,[4] an Afrofuturist digital makerspace. He co-founded Beat Making Lab,[5] an Emmy Award winning PBS web-series. He is co-director, writer and composer of The History of White People in America,[6] a PBS animated series.
Freelon has taught in the departments of African, African American and Diaspora Studies and Music at UNC-Chapel Hill and in the Department of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. He is a former board member of the North Carolina Arts Council.
^"N.C. Arts Council - Board Biographies". Ncarts.org. Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
^"Nnenna And Pierce Freelon Are The First Mother & Son Nominated Individually At The Same GRAMMYs Ceremony: How They Honor A Husband & Father Through Music". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
^Pineda, Jeremy Carballo (2021-12-22). "As a Grammy-Nominated Musician and Former Durham City Councilman, Pierce Freelon is Walking in the Footsteps of His Ancestors". INDY Week. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
^"Blackspace Durham".
^"Beat Making Lab". 5 January 2013.
^Howe, Brian (2020-07-02). "Pierce Freelon Breaks Down the Invention of Whiteness in a New Animated Musical Series". INDY Week. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
PierceFreelon is an American musician, educator, author and politician from Durham, North Carolina. He is a Grammy-nominated family music artist and former...
Nnenna Freelon (born July 28, 1954) is an American jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger. Freelon was born Chinyere Nnenna Pierce to Charles and...
Philip Goodwin Freelon (March 26, 1953 – July 9, 2019) was an American architect. He was best known for leading the design team (with J. Max Bond Jr....
123 Andrés All One Tribe – 1 Tribe Collective Black to the Future – PierceFreelon Crayon Kids – Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band Best Spoken Word Album...
We Grow Together Preschool Songs Andrew & Polly – Ahhhhh! PierceFreelon and Nnenna Freelon – Ancestars DJ Willy Wow! – Hip Hope For Kids! Uncle Jumbo...
was founded by several key artists of color in the industry such as PierceFreelon, Aaron Nigel Smith, Uncle Devin, Little Miss Ann, SaulPaul, Mil's Trills...
Soul Tracks. March 25, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023. ""My Body" by PierceFreelon". Apple Music. Retrieved 1 July 2021. ""It Took a Woman" by Tommy Atkins"...
city. The effort to recognize the couple was led by Council Member PierceFreelon. On September 6, 2022, the Durham City Council unanimously voted to...
Things (North Carolina Public Radio). Retrieved February 3, 2013. Freelon, Pierce (June 26, 2012). Open Beats Rock Brazil". opensource.com. Retrieved...
Archived June 7, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Knight Foundation/ Deen Freelon Associate Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Tweeting...
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Cheatham And The Sweet Baby Blues Band (Concord) 1996: Shaking Free – Nnenna Freelon (Concord) 1996: Play It Again Sam – Frank Capp Juggernaut Band (Concord)...
Retrieved on June 6, 2024 Soulsinger. Billboard. Retrieved on June 6, 2024 Freelon, Cubanismo Set For San Jose Jazz Fest. Billboard. Retrieved on June 6,...
..", June 10, 2008, accessed January 3, 2010 NPR: David Lyon, "Nnenna Freelon: Piano Jazz At Tanglewood", May 8, 2009, accessed January 3, 2010 Village...
Literature: Margaret Donovan Bauer Science: R.K.M. Jayanty Fine Arts: Philip Freelon Public Service: Loretta E. Lynch, Jane Smith Patterson, James H. Woodward...
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Kendrick Scott. The special ensemble also featured jazz singer Nnenna Freelon. In December 2007, the Terence Blanchard Quintet performed the movie music...
195. ISBN 978-0-8308-2827-2. "Richard Allen". PBS. Retrieved 2017-09-07. Freelon, Kiratiana; Thomas III, John (19 October 2019). "At Home in Allen's Church:...
Tomas Franck Tomas Franck in New York (Criss Cross, 1990) With Nnenna Freelon Maiden Voyage (Concord, 1998) With Joe Friedman Cup O' Joe (NASMusic 3...
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