RIP Prince. Prince and his music brought together generations, genders, races, ethnicities, sexualities, muscial perfectionist and casual listeners. And he understood.  He just understood. He reminded us at the 2015 Grammy Awards  "that it is art, our ability to sit with art and all the possibilities it helps us to imagine, that is so important to our ability to value all lives, and Black lives in particular." From Brittney Cooper (one of my favorite contemporary voices) writing for Salon:http://www.salon.com/2016/04/21/americas_prince_problem_how_black_people_and_art_became_devalued/