found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 17, 2021(in obituary dated Dec. 8, 2021: Greg Tate, a musician and longtime Village Voice writer who chronicled Black achievement in the arts and was acclaimed as a preeminent critic of hip-hop music and culture, died Dec. 7 in New York City at 64. Mr. Tate, who spent a formative decade in Washington before moving to New York in the early 1980s, was a guitarist who performed in groups until shortly before his death. But he was better known as a journalist whose wide-ranging critical essays and interviews, primarily about Black music, filmmaking and art, attracted an ardent following. Gregory Stephen Tate was born Oct. 14, 1957, in Dayton, Ohio)
