To me, the word that best describes Baker’s music, whether live or on a recording, is “presence.”

Six days on the road and through the past with Katie Crutchfield, a new giant of American songwriting.

Since the slavery era, Blacks have been America’s sustenance, even as we ourselves went hungry.

In Loudoun County, a flourishing data industry is straining local resources.

To their callers, who dial from all over the world, these students are the internet.

“We were left in there like animals.”