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DJ Scholarship (A Framework)

1 year

I got quiet and wrote a book. I wrote a damn book—better yet, a literary intervention on the life of Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. It’s a book rooted in Black queer music studies and reaches beyond the Elvis Presley site of injury. September 2023! Preorder link in my bio

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4 years

MF DOOM is the story of Diaspora. A Trinidadian Zimbabwean who was born in London and grew up in New York. Never became an American citizen.

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Please say nothing else to me until you acknowledge that Mick Jagger was one of Mother Turner's number one students.

Fascinating

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Tina Turner performing at the Steel Claw live show, 1984.

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The last thing then I'm done. House music was used to help "the children" raise money for weekly funerals when AIDS began to snatch bodies from the dance floor. We turned to house music and to ballroom mothers and fathers when our families turned away from us.

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It was Frankie Knuckles who said, "House music is disco's revenge." But why was disco, a genre that centered femme vocals and driving church-funk and four-to-the-floor rhythms, under attack and by whom? There's history in the word revenge.

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3 years

Dear writers, take this a message from Octavia Butler: “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”

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Chuck Berry once said his entire career was “one long Sister Rosetta Tharpe impersonation.” Let's sit with that.

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Imagine if every White led yoga studio you've ever heard of donated a significant amount of money and resources to support India? A speculative meditation.

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6 years

To be clear, this is a lesbian werewolf horror film set in Brazil 🇧🇷 It’s being screened in LA August 17, somebody go see it for me please, I stay craving well done queer cinema.

This Brazilian Lesbian Werewolf Movie Is Unlike Any You've Ever Seen

Watch the trailer here.

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On January 17, 1927, Eartha Kitt was born in the Black south. She passed on December 25, 2008. Mama lived a lot of lives in between.

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1 year

Curious about the gravitational pull Switzerland had on James Baldwin, Tina Turner, Nina Simone, and Lee Scratch Perry. By no means am I romanticizing this place, nor naïve about the resources it requires to live there, but why this place for them 🤔

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2 years

I don’t like the mean-spirited protection of Beyoncé and the willingness to dispose of people who challenge her. Some of y’all are the reason why bell hooks died with a broken heart. Tasty was and will be on repeat at my house. Kelis is not disposable.

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5 years

Saddest thing about Beyoncé and her ultra Blackness is that she’s singlehandedly placed many of y’all on the wrong side of history. She gets better with each of your critiques. As a DJ let me say this, the black anthem mixed with formation is gong down in blend culture history.

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6 years

Had no idea that Angela Bowen, a black lesbian feminist dance teacher and civil rights cultural worker existed. I keep thinking of all the unnamed

Angela Bowen, Dance Teacher and Gay Activist, Is Dead at 82 (Published 2018)

Her dance school in New Haven influenced many, and her outspokenness as a black lesbian feminist influenced many more.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

When most of what you've learned about LA is through Hollywood, chances are you don't know the Compton Cowboys...out in full force today....a staple like the Compton swap meet. Black Los Angeles.

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Always sobering to remember they were born on the same day and that Malcolm attended her funeral in January 65, before Baldwin attended his funeral a month later. Thinking about Black internationalism on this special May 19 day.

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2 years

The fact that Pharoah Sanders was part of a movement that turned to yoga, breathing, and other practices to create a new jazz genre is powerful. From his work with Alice Coltrane to Phyllis Hyman, he blew that horn alongside Black women for decades. As a peer and collaborator.

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Her name is Yvonne Turner, one of the pioneer house music producers who continues to be erased from the genre’s origin stories...

Yvonne Turner Helped Invent House Music—So Why Does No One Know Her Name?

Tracing the influence of a female producer who was wrongly written out of dance-music history.

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I coined "DJ Scholarship" in 2013 to focus on house music's Black & queer roots. Azealia, who identifies as bisexual, is part of the reclamation of house. EDM is a white-run multibillion industry built on extraction. We owe working-class DJs from the Midwest for all this shit

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5 years

One of my favorite moments in Toni Morrison's literary life, one that guides my work as an artist, is her three word response to Ellison's Invisible Man. To avoid writing with the white gaze or the quest for visibility in mind she simply stated: Invisible to whom?

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I will never forget the moment when Dr. Robin Kelley politely asked the scholars at a conference to replace the words black bodies with black people. I agreed and refrained from that day forward. It’s been three years.

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The way he flipped the conversation from 50 years of hip-hop to the future of non categorizable Black music that swings between a cosmic jazz and an electro classical synth sound is epic. A bold & brave sonic stance against gender and genre— making of new ones in the process.

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Not only did Luther tour with Roberta Flack as a background singer, she also encouraged him to consider a solo album. He listened. Roberta was among the first to hear his demo--one of the first to hear "Never Too Much." Luther said she cried cause the lyrics were phenomenal.

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Angela Davis got me thinking, "What would Black music scholarship be like if it were not so heavily influenced by white men, black men, and white women? Watching Roberta Flack's documentary & sad to see how few Black women are called to share critical reflections on Black music.

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Feeling Peter Tosh heavy today and happy to learn that he refused to play in South Africa and Israel in the 70s/80s--citing them both as apartheid states. He played in Swaziland and showed love to Palestinians instead. Dude was not about that 'Three Little Birds' life.

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5 years

Happy mother’s day to the Black women (and their children) who survived the Reagan era. May we stop using the word crack to describe addiction to mundane of objects like donuts and toy cars. And may we finally lay to rest all the Hollywood crack mother characters in Black films.

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2 years

Hold on...there is, in fact one more thing. We don't have house music without Africa and the Caribbean. Period(t). House music is queer music of the Black Atlantic. Run tell dat.

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A text that writes a new narrative around Tina’s 60 plus year career. There are so many stories about how she shaped multiple genres of music, in the US and the UK. She deserves deeper focus on who she was as a musician, dancer, and a southern global force of funky refusal.

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Where can we hold the grief for the premature passing of a whole generation? I was raised by these Black nerds, given permission to step off commercial lines. Rest well Trugoy...

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2 years

Wish I could say it was just white insecure men...but it was us too. Some of us, in our dismissal of the femme and queer elements of disco, set the stage for house to be coopted. Imagine had the Black church treated house like one of its own because it truly is an offspring.

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7 months

I believe Andre's album will unlock a lot for artists, writers, people struggling to flow. It's an opening, not just an album. Cheers to the chain of reactions...

Now, girl…

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I’ve been in my house for 3 years and ain’t hung a single piece of art. I turned on that flute music and put up two pieces this morning.

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2 years

So unfortunate that Patrice, like Nina and Aretha, gets read as a singer, when in fact, she, like Prince and Stevie, is a multi-instrumentalist. I wish Black women music scholars/journalists were called on more to contextualize the work of Black women musicians in documentaries.

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3 years

I wrote about Sister Rosetta Tharpe a few years ago and dipped into my toe in an ocean of unnamed Black women musicians

The Pioneering Architect Of Rock N’ Roll You Need To Know More About

In honor of Women’s History Month, we bring you Hidden #Herstories: A series of profiles on remarkable, yet under-celebrated women whose bravery, intelligence, skill, generosity and leadership...

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6 years

Imagine an app that can detect the stolen intellectual property of Black artists over the last hundred years. Speculative fiction 🧐 reparations

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Alfonso Ribeiro sues Fortnite dev Epic Games over stolen "Carlton Dance"

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2 years

Protecting Beyoncé from valid critique robs her of the opportunity to develop as an artist. This kind of protection is closer to the antics of Trumptonian followers. Virgos want to know how to avoid mistakes--how to ensure the performance of perfection. That said...

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4 years

@DarkBro77798674 yes, a Black universal citizen.

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4 years

Just learned that John Coltrane rented a harp to work out a composition he was working on. Alice experimented with it for the first time. He heard the sounds she produced and purchased a harp for her that same day. By the time it arrived he passed having never her heard play it.

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5 years

When you represent Black Los Angeles and you’ve been calling for impeachment since the fool was elected and you allow white folks to believe they led the charge, so you close your eyes and relish in your dignity. Maxine Waters. Again and Again.

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3 years

Prince was a post-punk, Black new wave artist too. A glam rock funk bomb.

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We are lucky to have us. And peep how so much of our attention has shifted to a family of brothers and the elements. Black music is truly the answer...the forcefield protecting our humanity.

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Been teaching black and brown youth on probation (shame on America) how to spin and the little homie discovered the fx knobs and filters today. His groove is undeniable. Both hands in pockets to secure the swag. DJ Scholarship in South Central.

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5 years

June 7: Prince. Nikki Giovanni. Gwendolyn Brooks. A layering of Black cosmic excellence that day.

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2 years

Are academics bout to theorize the soul out of house music? Five years ago in the academy, it didn't register as a musical form worthy of scholarly investigation.

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Rosetta Tharpe really stood in front of a choir with an electric guitar and ushered in Black rock.

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Langston Hughes once said the average negro/negress "hasn't even heard of the Harlem Rennaissance, and if they have, it hasn't raised their wages any."

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3 years

Sitting here reading Little Richard's biography and the moment he cited Mahalia as a primary influence, I couldn't unsee/unhear it. I only recently arrived at a place where I began to understand her as a gospel rock icon, this confirms it. Thank you New Orleans. Thank you Macon

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2 years

The difference between Teena Marie and Madonna is the difference between embodiment and extraction.

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I'm much more impressed that most white folks don't know who Teena Marie is. That means something to me. It's pretty special.

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Patti’s language is steeped in black queer poetics. She’s been shaped by us. Luther was president of her fan club when he was a teenager and it makes sense.

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Octavia Butler offers the most crucial advice to writers, artists, and scholars alike...habit vs. inspiration. In other words, don’t wait to be inspired, make a habit out of doing your work.

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While we're at it. When Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards produced Diana (her 1980 self-titled album), they created an album of Black queer classics. Berry Gordy hated it. Motown refused to release a single because...queer context. Diana is Ross's best-selling album to date. holla

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House/Techno music resources, an improvisational syllabus.

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The heartbreaking thing is not just that we lost her voice but that Angela Bofill, an Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican songstress, had to fundraise to cover her medical expenses- much like Rosie Gaines and Rachelle Ferrell. Shame on this country. Go head and fly away from this place mama

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Morrison straight-up titled that book "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." I picked it up a decade ago, thinking it would be a quick read. Instead, it became protection against workshop violence during my MFA moment a decade later. I had my own canon.

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Not Oprah's people inviting me to share reflections on Rennaissance. I said yes. The album is a testament that Beyoncé (the brand and the person) has always been a Black queer cultural product. Rennaissance solidifies her gratitude. Here are my thoughts.

Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” and the Case for Misery Resistance

The 16-track project carries the weight of Black musical genealogies and geographies.

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2 years

And don't we owe it to Father Willi Ninja to call his name in this moment?

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3 years

All I want is one documentary about Black music without the expertise of a single white body. Not one. And I think Amiri Baraka would want the same thing...

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3 years

Both Greg and bell had one-syllable names. They were both Libras with insatiable curiosity. They left a gap that we'll strive to fill for the rest of our lives and bodies of work that will take some of us a lifetime to find. This combined loss is a call to action.

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Robyn Crawford got me thinking about narrative and the powerful/highly favored/socially acceptable folks who tend to control it. She single handedly reversed the narrative around whitney’s life and it empowered black queer folk AND black women who struggle(d) with addiction.

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Some of the sharpest, most gorgeous writing on jazz. Features artists from across decades, genres, and geographies. Stunning work here.

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Today is hard. Thinking about Michele Wallace, who lost her mother today as well. Faith Ringgold was a mother and modeled the complexity of it well.

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Two times when Toni Morrison couldn't write she says is whenever she was in love and when her son died.

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Not to mention the Black and brown queer DJs, yes, Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, and Levan, but also the many nameless women DJs who traveled between NYC, Jersey, Philly, and Baltimore, sharing queer-inflected music with dance floors in the spirit of disco and house.

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Meanwhile Miriam Makeba family out here fighting white South Africans to gain access to the rights to her music...much of it about...white South African apartheid.

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Prince and Nina left on this day (13 years apart), and it takes my breath to consider it...

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I would love to not think about the connection between Jenny Livingston (Director of Paris is Burning) and Madonna. I really would. But alas history and investigative journalism.

Paris Is Burning Is Back—And So Is Its Baggage

The quintessential documentary on the New York ballroom scene’s 1980s–1990s heyday transformed the culture, and its subjects. With a big screen re-release under way, director Jennie Livingston...

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Signing off after this because this sentence alone is a full story. Distance is the only cure for certain diseases--Zora Neale Hurston I also love this photo of her and how capricornistic she appears to be...

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And let’s not erase Eritrea from his biography. Truly a son of the diaspora. From East Africa to South Los Angeles

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Cheers to this truly african diasporic endeavor. Nigeria. South Carolina. Kenya.

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#WildSeed : @ViolaDavis is developing an adaptation of the #OctaviaButler novel at Amazon, scripted by @Nnedi and @Wanuri . The latter will also direct.

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Black scholars at this Prince symposium on the 30th anniversary of the LoveSexy album refuse to discuss Prince in past tense. They all say Prince is. He’s another trickster who managed, somehow, to not die. We miss him. He’s still here.

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It took everything in me to put these sentences together, but here they are. Honored to have written about bell hooks for the @latimes as a Black Angeleno who fell in love with a brilliant Black Kentuckian.

Appreciation: Here's what we all owe bell hooks, beginning with me

Lynnée Denise, a friend and collaborator of hooks, the pioneering feminist writer who died last week, describes her essential legacy.

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It's crazy to me that we have no national memorial rituals in place for folks we lost to COVID. Manu Dibango was a force on Black dance floors globally. He left us early in the pandemic at 86. "Soul Makossa" was just as relevant as "Funky Drummer." All that to say thank you, sir

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I wrote this piece for @harpersbazaarus from the Schomburg Center in Harlem last week. But I’ve been thinking, it’s not enough to cite the Black queer roots of house and techno. Now it’s about shifting the dominate narrative and redistributing the wealth.

House Music Is Back. Let's Remember Its Roots.

Drake, Beyoncé and more have brought the genre back into the mainstream. But it's always been the sound of Black queer resistance.

www.harpersbazaar.com

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More than the fact that today is my pub date, it’s the fact that this book is number one in the blues category where every other book on the list are written by white men. It matters that I’ve written this book and that I am not a white man. Order it here

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The fact that Juvenile’s profile bio reads “over 1 billion azzes backed since 99” is the start to my Monday I didn’t know I needed.

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I hate that “spilling the tea” has become part of the American lexicon and that the black queer cultural context and the history of use of the phrase has been, once again, removed as a signifier.

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The thing about Toni Cade’s semi-fictional work ‘Those Bones Are Not My Child,” based on the Atlanta Child Murders, is that she died before finishing the book. Toni Morrison, her editor/very close friend, finished the book after her passing. This is Goddess business.

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I wish a citational practice could be applied to the use of black queer slang, cause some of y’all talking bout ‘spilling the tea’ don’t respect humanity of the people who coined the phrase...

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Yes. Stevie squared. Good morning Stevie Wonder and Stevie Nicks.

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An even better day to think about how Luther Vandross worked his production magic for Aretha, helping her score a hit during a slump period in her career. 1982.

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The fact that Patrice Rushen arranged several songs on Prince's first album is nothing light. Respect due.

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bell hooks told y'all that "Writing cultural criticism to be hip & cool, especially when the subject is pop culture, allows critics to indulge in acts of appropriation without risk. Fascinating, titillating cultural criticism that looks at the popular without engaging a radical

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This piece contextualizes the foundational elements of the prison abolitionist movement. For folk who don't quite understand the term/movement & want to honor family members who get disappeared by prisons, the activist scholarship of Ruthie Gilmore is key

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@blacklikewho @DrAhmadGH Hence its black church/African/Caribbean roots and ability to create sensual-musical transcendence, yes. DJs as spirit world mediums.

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It’s charged, but worth sharing. Michael Jackson returned Little Richard his publishing rights after buying The Beatles. Why? He realized the Beatles owned Little Richard’s entire catalog. Beat It (no pun intended) Paul McCartney. This is Black music justice. Rhythmic reparations

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All I can see are the blues men and women they studied behind them trees....We talk a lot about the (white) British Invasion of the U.S., but not enough about the Black Southern invasion of the UK.

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And let's be clear, had you spent 10 minutes w/ Aretha Franklin talking about gospel, it would have become clear that she, too, was a practitioner/scholar. She knew, played, & studied the mechanics of gospel for decades. Plus, like Prince, she loved the erotics of the spiritual.

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Had I started reading earlier in life, I could have saved myself from a lot of suffering. Toni Morrison means the world to me because her approach to character development inspired me to figure out how to live my own life with more magic and less madness.

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I just discovered Haitian jazz vocal impresario. She's 33 with a grammy and four albums. Cecile McLorin Salvant. daughter of the Betty Carter/Sarah Vaughn tradition. Gorgeous.

Cécile McLorin Salvant - Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying (Live at...

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs "Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying," from her album 'Ghost Song,' live in concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center. You can hear the...

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Today I'm sitting with the fact that Alice Coltrane created a Detroit Black church/Hindu fusion of prayer and meditation jazz. Her relationship with Pharoah Sanders is just as significant (musically and spiritually), as her relationship with John in the creation of that sound.

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Heartbreak. Lee Scratch, like MJ & Prince, are folk you never assumed would die. The music travels to so many realms, it conditions you to believe that they've been here before and that they'll be back again. Honored to be in the UK for this & thank you, Jamaica. The God of Dub

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Nipsey is heavy on my heart and mind. The conflict I felt as a young person from the Crenshaw District who trusted gangstas more than cops and who heard stories of LAPD dropping OGs off in rival communities to instigate beef/war. I'll have questions forever.

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"What would the music be like, if it had not been so not thoroughly influenced by a patriarchy." Angela Davis

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I can't stop listening to Black women playing the harp and shifting the sonic association with the instrument from classical music to jazz. Subversive and tender. This is an amazing intergenerational overview of artists to look for/listen to.

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I put Alice Smith and Meshell Ndegeocello in conversation for this edition of The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic. Tune in now at (4pm UK) and 11am (EST), and listen like you read @1BTNradio

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Death is breaking us open. Lee Scratch isn't discussed enough in the context of "Afrofuturism" cause we're so U.S.-focused. But I'm clear that he was in conversation with Sun Ra & other cosmic jazz players who were world-building through studio motherships

Lee Scratch Perry & Subatomic Sound System - Full Performance (Live...

http://KEXP.ORG presents Lee "Scratch" Perry & Subatomic Sound System performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded September 18, 2016.Songs:Happy BirthdayI A...

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These album covers existed long before the term Afrofuturism and offered me a visual escape away from the after life of slavery and a pathway to visual cosmic slop. They taught me radical imagination. Rest well Pedro Bell, you illustrated a movement.

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We lost the Master Mind behind the Graphic's & Artwork of Funkadelic. Mr. Pedro Bell is an American artist and illustrator best known for his elaborate cover designs and other artwork for numerous Funkadelic and George Clinton solo albums. Thxs for yr service our brother.😲🙏

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The foundation of what some call rock n roll. Baptist raised and Buddhist rooted. Fly away Anna Mae Bullock. Queen Mother Tina.

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Wait, Juvenile's NPR Tiny Desk is what my entire life is about today. His phrasing and diction and ability to rock with a live band reminded me that these people are descendants of second lines.

Juvenile: Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Music is celebrating Black Music Month with an array of brand new Tiny Desk concerts. Together, these artists represent the past, present and future of B...

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