Where I Come From

…longtime friend Dwayne Golden, who attended the same elementary and junior high schools as Mack. “It was just black versus white, and everyone else just fell in the middle. But…

Fly Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Rhee

…to seize control of her second-grade class at Harlem Park Elementary in Baltimore. As the story goes, one sweltering summer day, the students were characteristically ignoring her lesson. She opened…

Lucky Number Se7en

…flute from his two sisters. During elementary school, he played the trombone and drums. “I played everything, really,” he recalls. As for his voice, it’s fair to say a singing…

Strings Attached

…got you laid in high-school.” Learning to play was the result of a happy accident. While Oak was living in Houston as a child, his elementary school’s music teacher needed…