“The only future is the one that nurtures the collective,” raps Durham emcee Pierce Freelon at the end of the potent social tirade that comes midway through “Collective,” the rollicking, horn-led funk ...

A young candidate runs for mayor of Durham, taking on older incumbents and promising a new direction: it’s a common scenario, and one that thirty-three-year-old musician Pierce Freelon hopes echoes ...

Pierce is an Emmy-Award winning producer, an arts-activist, a professor of Black Studies and a Millennial politician. In 2017 Pierce ran for Mayor of his hometown, Durham, NC. In Durham, Pierce ...