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Audre Lorde's 1989 Commencement Address to graduates of Oberlin College

Audre Lorde

Oberlin College

May 29, 1989

I congratulate you all on this moment of your lives. Most people don't remember their commencement addresses. Next year, when someone asks you who spoke at graduation, I wonder what you will say. I remember she was a middle-aged Black woman. I remember she had a nice voice. I remember she was a poet. But what did she say? After all, there are no new ideas. Only new ways of making those ideas real and active through our lives. What you most of all of do not need right now is more rhetoric. What you need are facts you don't ordinarily get to help you fashion weapons that matter for the war in which we are all engaged. A war for survival in the twenty-first century, the survival of this planet and all this planet's people.

Thanks to Jesse Jackson (Poem)

The US and the USSR are the most powerful countries in the world but only 1/8 of the world's population African people are also 1/8 of the world's population. 1/2 of the world's population is Asian. 1/2 of that number is Chinese. There are 22 nations in the Middle East. Not three.

Most people in the world are Yellow, Black, Brown, Poor, Female Non-Christian and do not speak english.

By the year 2000 the 20 largest cities in the world will have two things in common none of them will be in Europe and none in the United States.

You are all so very beautiful. But I have seen special and beautiful before, and I ask myself where are they now? What makes you different? Well, to begin with, you are different because you have asked me to come and speak with you from my heart, on what is a very special day for each of you. So when they ask you, who spoke at your commencement, remember this: I am a Black feminist lesbian warrior poet doing my work, and a piece of my work is asking you, how are you doing yours? And when they ask you, what did she say, tell them I asked you the most fundamental question of your life—who are you, and how are you using the powers of that self in the service of what you believe?

You are inheriting a country that has grown hysterical with denial and contradiction. Last month in space five men released a satellite that is on its way to the planet Venus, and the infant mortality rate in the capital of this nation is higher than in Kuwait. We are citizens of the most powerful country on earth—we are also citizens of a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on earth. Feel what that means. It is a reality that haunts each of our lives and that can help inform our dreams. It's not about altruism, it's about self-preservation. Survival.

A twenty-eight-year-old white woman is beaten and raped in Central Park. Eight Black boys are arrested and accused of taking part in a rampage against joggers. That is a nightmare that affects each of our lives. I pray for the body and soul of every one of these young people trapped in this compound tragedy of violence and social reprisal. None of us escapes the brutalization of the other. Using who we are, testifying with our lives to what we believe is not altruism, it is a question of self-preservation. Black children did not declare war upon this system, it is the system which declared war upon Black children, both female and male.

Ricky Boden, eleven, Staten Island, killed by police, 1972. Clifford Glover, ten, Queens, New York, killed by police, 1975. Randy Evans, fourteen, Bronx, New York, killed by police, 1976. Andre Roland, seventh grader, found hanged in Columbia, Missouri, after being threatened for dating a white girl. The list goes on. You are strong and intelligent. Your beauty and your promise lie like a haze over your faces. I beg you, do not waste it. Translate that power and beauty into action wherever you find yourself to be, or you will participate in your own destruction.

I have no platitudes for you. Before most of you are thirty, 10 percent of you will be involved with space traffic and 10 percent of you will have contracted AIDS. This disease which may yet rival the plague of the Dark Ages is said to have originated in Africa, spontaneously and inexplicably jumping from the green monkey to man. Yet in 1969, twenty years ago, a book entitled A Survey of Chemical and Biological Warfare, written by John Cookson and Judith Nottingham, published by Monthly Review Press, discussed green monkey disease as a fatal blood, tissue, and venereally transmitted virus which is an example of a whole new class of disease-causing organisms, and of biological warfare interest. It also discussed the possibilities of this virus being genetically manipulated to produce "new" organisms.

But I do have hope. To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair—despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless. This diploma is a piece of your power. You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation—survival.

Each one of us in this room is privileged. You have a bed, and you do not go to it hungry. We are not part of those millions of homeless people roaming america today. Your privilege is not a reason for guilt, it is part of your power, to be used in support of those things you say you believe. Because to absorb without use is the gravest error of privilege. The poorest one-fifth of this nation became 7 percent poorer in the last ten years, and the richest one-fifth of the nation became 11 percent richer. How much of your lives are you willing to spend merely protecting your privileged status? ls that more than you are prepared to spend putting your dreams and beliefs for a better world into action? That is what creativity and empowerment [are] all about. The rest is destruction. And it will have to be one or the other.

It is not enough to believe in justice. The median income for Black and Hispanic families has fallen in the last three years, while the median income of white families rose 1.5 percent. We are eleven years away from a new century, and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan can still be elected to Congress from the Republican party in Louisiana. Little fourteen-year-old Black boys in the seventh grade are still being lynched for dating a white girl. It is not enough to say we are against racism.

It is not enough to believe in everyone's right to her or his own sexual preference. Homophobic jokes are not just fraternity high jinks. Gay bashing is not just fooling around. Less than a year ago a white man shot two white women in their campsite in Pennsylvania, killing one of them. He pleaded innocent, saying he had been maddened by their making love inside their own tent. If you were sitting on that jury, what would you decide?

It is not enough to believe anti-Semitism is wrong, when the vandalism of synagogues is increasing, amid the homegrown fascism of hate groups like the Christian Identity and Tom Metzger's American Front. The current rise in jokes against Jewish women masks anti-Semitism as well as women hatred. What are you going to say the next time you hear a JAP story?

We do not need to become each other in order to work together. But we do need to recognize each other, our differences as well as the sameness of our goals. Not for altruism. For self-preservation—survival.

Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true. And every day that you sit back silent, refusing to use your power, terrible things are being done in our name.

Our federal taxes contribute $3 billion yearly in military and economic aid to Israel. Over $200 million of that money is spent fighting the uprising of Palestinian people who are trying to end the military occupation of their homeland. Israeli solders fire tear gas canisters made in america into Palestinian homes and hospitals, killing babies, the sick, and the elderly. Thousands of Palestinians, some as young as twelve, are being detained without trial in barbed-wired detention camps, and even many Jews of conscience opposing these acts have also been arrested and detained.

Encouraging your congresspeople to press for a peaceful solution in the Middle East, and for recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people, is not altruism, it is survival.

In particular, my sisters and brothers, I urge you to remember, while we battle the many faces of racism in our daily lives as African Americans, that we are part of an international community of people of Color, and people of the African diaspora around the world are looking to us and asking, how are we using the power we have? Or are we allowing our power to be used against them, our brothers and sisters in struggle for their liberation?

Apartheid is a disease spreading out from South Africa across the whole southern tip of Africa. This genocidal system in South Africa is kept propped into place by the military and economic support of the U.S., Israel, and Japan. Let me say here that I support the existence of the state of Israel as I support the existence of the U.S.A., but this does not blind me to the grave injustices emanating from either. Israel and South Africa are intimately entwined, politically and economically. There are no diamonds in Israel, yet diamonds are Israel's major source of income. Meanwhile, Black people slave in the diamond mines of South Africa for less than thirty cents a day.

It is not enough to say we are against apartheid. Forty million of our tax dollars go as aid to the South Africa-backed UNITA forces to suppress an independent Angola. Our dollars pay for the land mines responsible for over 50,000 Angolan amputees. It appears that Washington is joining hands with South Africa to prevent [the] independence of Namibia. Now make no mistake. South Africa, Angola, Namibia will be free. But what will we say when our children ask us, what were you doing, mommy and daddy, while american-made bullets were murdering Black children in Soweto?

In this country, children of all colors are dying of neglect. Since 1980, poverty has increased 30 percent among white children in america. Fifty percent of African American children and 30 percent of Latino children grow up in poverty, and that percentage is even higher for the indigenous people of this land, American Indians. While the Magellan capsule speeds through space toward the planet Venus, thirty children on this planet earth die every minute from hunger and inadequate health care. And in each one of those minutes, $1,700,000 are spent on war.

The white fathers have told us: "l think, therefore I am." But the Black mother within each one of us—the poet inside—whispers in our dreams: "I feel, therefore I can be free." Learn to use what you feel to move you toward action. Change, personal and political, does not come about in a day, nor a year. But it is our day-to-day decisions, the way in which we testify with our lives to those things in which we say we believe, that empower us. Your power is relative, but it is real. And if you do not learn to use it, it will be used, against you, and me, and our children. Change did not begin with you, and it will not end with you, but what you do with your life is an absolutely vital piece of that chain. The testimony of your daily living is the missing remnant in the fabric of our future.

There are so many different parts to each of us. And there are so many of us. If we can envision the future we desire, we can work to bring it into being. We need all the different pieces of ourselves to be strong, as we need each other and each other's battles for empowerment.

That surge of power you feel inside you now does not belong to me, nor to your parents, nor to your professors. That power lives inside of you. It is yours, you own it, and you will carry it out of this room. And whether you use it or whether you waste it, you are responsible for it. Good luck to you all. Together, in the conscious recognition of our differences, we can win, and we will.

A LUTA CONTINUA [The struggle continues].

#Audre Lorde #quotations #prose #commencement address #I've been seeing people share excerpts from this without the larger context and think it's important to include.#not because I cosign everything she said but because context is important.

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kwebtv · 9 months

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Aliens in the Family - BBC - November 18, 1987 - December 23, 1987

Science Fiction (6 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Grant Thatcher as Bond

Sophie Bold as Jake (Jacqueline)

Clare Wilkie as Dora

Sebastian Knapp as Lewis

Rob Edwards as David

Clare Clifford as Phillipa

Elizabeth Watkins as Solita

Granville Saxton as Wirdegen Leader

Tony Birch as Wirdegen

James Woodward as Wirdegen

John Glover as Wirdegen Teacher

Sue Soames as Wirdigen

Petra Markham as Pet

Rupert Bates as Customs Official

Patricia Gallimore as Istara

#Aliens in the Family #TV #BBC #Science Fiction #1980's #Grant Thatcher #Sophie Bold #Claire Wilkie #Sebastian Knapp #Rob Edwards

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sdv-elliotts-slimjim · 2 years

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Voice headcanons for the bachelors of the Valley, here we go!! (I'll do the bachelorettes soon)

Elliott

- Jack Whitehall, AKA the gay brother in Jungle Cruise (2021). Kind of has that snooty, vaguely flamboyant, but soft tone. Totally feels like he would sound above it all when that just happens to be a carry over from his former home?

Harvey

- Because I am a sucker, Corey Burton, the voice for Ratchet in TF: Animated. Kind of gruff but also kind of comforting?

Shane

- Jack Johnson. Just Peter B Parker vibes. A lot of a mess but still has a big heart.

Sebastian

- One of my friends suggested Donald Glover, specifically Marshall Lee from Adventure Time.

Sam

- Will Friedle, because blonde lmao and because Will voiced Bumblebee. Friendly but cool.

Alex

- Clifford Chapin. I don't know how to explain my reasoning.

#stardew valley head canon #the bachelors #stardew sam #stardew harvey #stardew alex #stardew elliott #stardew sebastian #stardew shane #Atreyu's Head Canons ✨

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theloniousbach · 6 months

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LIVESTREAM (and almost): NICOLE GLOVER with Tyrone Allen and Kayvon Gordon, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 29-30 DECEMBER 2023, 7:30 and 9 pm sets

I close out the year with one of my favorite players whom I make a point of seeing—this year as part of Bill Charlap’s Jazz in July 92NY series, at Jazz St Louis with Allison MIller, and at The Jazz Gallery in November as well as on the second Artemis album and on Aaron Diehl’s presentation of Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite—at every opportunity. It was at the Allison Miller gig that I first stayed over for the second set and began my habit of thanking musicians for what they do particularly on the streams.

So having NICOLE GLOVER’s ongoing growth with an equally smart, supple band is a treat. She made a big impression with the Wayne Shorter tribute Palladium and her subsequent late night Smoke gigs with a different trio were fierce and intense. Those players had two settings loud and louder and weren’t particularly subtle. Kayvon Gordon is quite subtle indeed deftly shading the rhythms and Tyrone Allen has a rich bass tone. Together they can whisper and roar. Glover can still pin one’s ears back ferociously and intensely, but she’s also able to develop lines, tonalities, and phrases with grace and breathing room.

This was certainly her first weekend run and probably her first regular (as opposed to late night) sets as a leader. Body and Soul both nights and Monk’s work on Friday were the only familiar standard covers. She/they know the 60s Blue Note and beyond post-bop repertoire so undoubtedly she draws on Joe Henderson, Clifford Jordan, Andrew Hill, and others. In any case, the tunes proceed at actually quite conversational levels—and they have the audience’s full attention. I recall a difficult late night gig where, even roaring, they couldn’t hear themselves.

I don’t have tune names on the whole, but there were some very welcome repeats and, in any case, a remarkable range of music.

I’m loathe to say that any musician, particularly a youngish woman, needs to be ingratiating to the audience. She has previously been reticent to talk, but made a point of introducing the band both at the start of each set and just at the end and dedicating each set to someone, probably a staunch fan and fixture on the scene who has evidently died. Further, she certainly likes her band and, as she was with me, shyly personable with fans. She’s smart, musically and in general, so it’s good to see her having fun. And it’s wonderful to be able to experience the fun they are creating.

#concert review #jazz #small’s live #2023 #small’s jazz club #livestream almost #livestream

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roseswitheraway · 2 years

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Protestors in Queens, New York urging for the arrest of Thomas Shea for murdering Clifford Glover, a ten-year-old black boy, 1974

#united states history #new york #clifford glover #protest #acab #1974 #1970s photography

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mariocki · 6 years

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Callan: That’ll Be The Day (4.1, Thames, 1972)

“Not many people know exactly what they’re worth, do they?” “You and I know.”

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unknown-songs · 4 years

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BLACK LIVES MATTER

A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)

Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk

Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul

Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop

Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk

When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House

Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock

Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House

Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique

Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul

See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock

Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul

The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B

Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House

Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk

quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul

Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul

Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop

Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz

Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B

Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul

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In memory of:

Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa

Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley

Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott

Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford

Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.

George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen

India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly

Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper

Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington

Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy

M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson

Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.

O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom

Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour

Quaco

Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith

Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson

T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders

Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III

Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw

Yusef Kirriem Hawkins

The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)

All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.

All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.

All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.

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My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.

Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more) Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro

YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)

Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/

#black lives matter #blm #racism #george floyd #breonna taylor #mlk #black history

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citylightsbooks · 4 years

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City Lights Bookstore’s Antiracist Reading List | UPDATED

Human creativity is integral to revolutionary resistance—the urgent plea, the silenced cry, the righteous rage. It is imperative that we educate and illuminate ourselves to deepen our commitment to justice and equity for Black people and all people of color, and to pave the way for radical systemic change.

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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Til to Trayvon Martin Edited by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr 9780393352733 Norton Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872867383 City Lights Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 9780679732761 Vintage A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross 9780807033555 Beacon W.E.B. Dubois' Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Edited by Britt Rusert and Whitney Battle-Baptiste 9781616897062 Princeton Architectural Press Race Man: Selected Works 1960-2015 Julian Bond Edited by Michael G. Long 9780872867949 City Lights Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall 9780525560548 Viking The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson 9780679763888 Random House

The Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566891493 Coffee House Everywhere You Don't Belong: A Novel Gabrielle Bump 9781616208790 Algonquin The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872865808 City Lights

No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements Hillary Moore and James Tracy Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872867963 City Lights The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander 9781620971932 The New Press Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown 9781849352604 AK Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox 9780802143006 Grove The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox Commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha 9780802141323 Grove Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine 9781555976903 Graywolf How to Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288 One World The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9780679744726 Random House No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780307275929 Vintage How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide Crystal Marie Fleming 9780807039847 Beacon The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter 9780393339741 Norton Heaven Is All Goodbyes: City Lights Pocket Poet Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin 9780872867451 City Lights Afropessimism Frank WIlderson III 9781631496141 Liveright If They Come in the Morning . . . : Voices of Resistance Edited by Angela Y. Davis 9781784787691 Verso So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Olua 9781580058827 Seal Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Ruskin, the Man Behind the March on Washington Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long 9780872867659 City Lights We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden Foreword by Nic Stone 9781547602520 Bloomsbury Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You - A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 9780316453691 Little, Brown Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III Foreword by Jason Reynolds 9781250311207 Roaring Brook Betty Before X Ilyasah Shabazz with Renée Watson 9780374306106 FSG Clifford's Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809 Coffee House Native Son RIchard Wright 9780061148507 Harper Perennial Training School for Negro Girls Camille Acker 9781936932375 Feminist Press They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays Hanif Abdurraqib 9781937512651 Two Dollar Radio Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson 9780812984965 One World The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Toni Morrison 9780525562795 Vintage Oreo Fran Ross 9780811223225 New Directions Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Audre Lorde Foreword by Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863 Crossing Press Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316262262 Little, Brown Monument: Poems New and Selected Natasha Trethewey 9780358118237 Mariner The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Peniel E. Joseph 9781541617865 Basic Dear White People Justin Simien Illustrated by Ian O’Phelan 97814769809 37 Ink Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas Edited by Sam Durant Preface by Bobby Seale Foreword by Danny Glover 9780847841899 Rizzoli Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers Stephan Shames and Bobby Seale 9781419722400 Harry N. Abrams Press In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition Fred Moten 9780816641000 University of Minnesota Press The Known World: A Novel Edward P. Jones 9780061159176 Amistad Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas John Keene 9780811225526 New Directions Beloved: A Novel Toni Morrison 9781400033416 Vintage The Bluest Eye: A Novel Toni Morrison 9780307278449 Vintage Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Toni Morrison Vintage 9780679745426 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 9780684824772 Scribner Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Harriet E. Wilson Edited with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Richard J. Ellis 9780307477453 Vintage Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement Edited by Toni Morrison 9780061774010 Harper I’m Not Dying with You Tonight Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Sourcebooks Fire 9781492678892 The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 9781784782924 Verso The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Harold Cruse 9781590171356 NYRB Classics How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society Manning Marable 9781608465118 Haymarket From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781608465620 Haymarket Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780936756745 Semiotext(e) Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. Blight 9781416590323 Simon & Schuster Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 Taylor Branch 9780671687427 Simon & Schuster Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 Taylor Branch 9780684848099 Simon & Schuster At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 Taylor Branch 9780684857138 Simon & Schuster A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story Elaine Brown 9780385471077 Anchor Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Y. Davis 9780717806676 International Publishers Co. My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 9780140439182 Penguin Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition Frederick Douglass and Angela Y. Davis 9780872865273 City Lights Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 W.E.B. Du Bois 9780684856575 Free Press

#reading list #city lights bookstore #antiracist

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wutbju · 3 years

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So all the students -- 124, btw, not 88 -- who were at Bob Jones College in that first year are as follows:

Perry Bestor Allen from Crichton, Alabama

Ella Louise Buckner from Headland, Alabama

Henry Seymour Blocker from Sandusky, Ohio

Mary Evelyn Brannon from Headland, Alabama

I. D. Barton from Andalusia, Alabama

Olin Comer Cleveland from Hartwell, Georgia

John Andrew Cherry from Dothan, Alabama

Hilary Herbert Clements from Pinckard, Alabama

Henry Mallory Chandler from Grady, Alabama

Dorothy Maxine Ceruti from Millville, Florida

Virgil Miller Culpepper from Ensley, Alabama

Asa Lee Carter from Ramer, Alabama

Leonidas Littlebury Colley from Brundidge, Alabama

Nollie Dykes from Ariton, Alabama

LeGare Day from Abbeville, Alabama

Dorothy Dowling from Enterprise, Alabama

Leonard LeRoy Dunlap from Meridian, Mississippi

Cecil Marvett Ellisor from Andalusia, Alabama

Bessie Ruby Enfinger from Skipperville, Alabama

Rawdon Lee Gallman from Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Samuel Willard Gates from Carrollton, Alabama

Johnnie Goare from Slocomb, Alabama

Joseph Leon Goodin from Opp, Alabama

Henry Edward Grube from Mobile, Alabama

Ariana Haymaker from Winona Lake, Indiana

Nellie Pauline Hallford from Slocomb, Alabama

Dorothy Vivian Harris from Valdosta, Georgia

John William Hightower from Brundidge, Alabama

Russell Clifford Hobbs from Lynn Haven , Florida

William Jennings Hughes from Brewton, Alabama

James Ottis Hays from Red Level, Alabama

Ottawa Grace Hall from Blountstown, Florida

Fannie Mae Holmes from Fort Deposit, Alabama

Bonclie Howell from Hartford, Alabama

Evenly Howell from Hartford, Alabama

Lonnie Coleman Henley from Ramer, Alabama

James Welborne Johnston from Panama City, Florida

Anna Louise Johnson from Lynn Haven , Florida

Frank Milner Jones from Daleville, Alabama

Isaac Godfrey King from Sneads, Florida

John Clifford Lewis from Red Level, Alabama

Marvin M. Larrimore from Dickinson, Alabama

Bertha Eloise Long from Clio, Alabama

Lillia V. Long from Clio, Alabama

Ruth Mowbray from St. Andrews, Florida

Margaret Massey from Luverne, Alabama

Kate McMillan from Wausau, Florida

Minnie Eunice Monk from Lynn Haven , Florida

Matha Virginia Monk from Clio, Alabama

Ruth Doris Mahan from Montgomery, Alabama

Ruth Ellen Miller from Vernon, Florida

Frances Eudora Moseley from Sylacauga, Alabama

Homer Napier from Dothan, Alabama

Laura Frances Porter from Sylacauga, Alabama

Frank Norris Pitts from Montgomery, Alabama

Graff Parish from Dozier, Alabama

Jesse Lamar Price from Eufala, Alabama

Jesse Lee Riley from Enterprise, Alabama

Eugene Clower Smith from Port St. Joe, Florida

Randolph Aenon Sparks from Aucilla, Florida

Miriam Burnett Sellers from Slocomb, Alabama

Eva May Silent from Slocomb, Alabama

Robert Paul Stough from Dothan, Alabama

James Monroe Strickland from Dothan, Alabama

Illah May Smith from Olustee, Florida

Gladys Alma Trawick from Skipperville, Alabama

Bowers Shipp Sandusky from Marianna, Florida

Evelyn Avery Urquhart from Montgomery, Alabama

Virginia Urquhart from Montgomery, Alabama

Alvine Herman Vanlandingham from Hartford, Alabama

Walter Bowden Venters from Chipley, Florida

Florrie Love Williams from Panama City, Florida

Ruby Woodham from Slocomb, Alabama

Lynwood Henry Wilson from Crewe, Virginia

Hugh Emmette Wilson from Sweetwater, Alabama

John Wesley Wilson from Goodwater, Alabama

Daniel Cleveland Whitsett from Abbeville, Alabama

Anthony Hamilton Warner from Montgomery, Alabama

Paul Jennings Ward from Geneva, Alabama

Marguerite Ward from Panama City, Florida

Bessie Lou Ward from Slocomb, Alabama

Alvin Lewis Walden from DeFuniak Springs, Florida

George J. Leslie Amos from Andalusia, Alabama

Olin B. Brooks from Birmingham, Alabama

Selden Temple Bristow from Lynn Haven , Florida

James Carl Bowden from Tennille, Alabama

I. Z. Bowden from Tennille, Alabama

Minnie Pearl Canterbury from Montgomery, Alabama

Oma Leonteen Cain from Panama City, Florida

Lucy Belle Canterbury from Panama City, Florida

Dora Lee Canterbury from Panama City, Florida

J. C. Dean from Ponce De Leon, Florida

Morrison Mosley Davis from McClenny, Florida

Charlie Herns Edenfield from Altha, Florida

Mildred Edwards from Dothan, Alabama

Maries Edwards from Dothan, Alabama

Annalee Folks from Panama City, Florida

Pat Hall from Thomasville, Alabama

Frances Catherine Glover from Panama City, Florida

James Lafayette Houston from Comer, Alabama

Steadman Eugene Hobbs from Panama City, Florida

Mrs. W. J. Hughes from Hartford, Alabama

Max Darby Jones from Port St. Joe, Florida

Bob Jr. Jones from College Point, Florida

James Walter Kelly from Slocomb, Alabama

Annie Louise Lee from Panama City, Florida

Lenna Elizabeth Leonard from Lynn Haven , Florida

Andrew Paul McKenzie from Panama City, Florida

Minnie Lois Mayers from Panama City, Florida

William Leonard Peters from St. Petersburg, Florida

William Hubbard Reynolds from Montgomery, Alabama

Gaston Robinson from Clanton, Alabama

Helen Kathryn Sims from Panama City, Florida

Howard William Sapp from Panama City, Florida

Martha Jane Surber from St. Andrews, Florida

Rea Steele from Panama City, Florida

Herbert Patton Sapp from Panama City, Florida

Minnie Beatrice Seay from Bartow, Florida

Mabel Thompson from St. Andrews, Florida

Graves Sim Urquhart from Montgomery, Alabama

Marion Kenneth Vickery from Flomaton, Alabama

Mike Litton Whaley from Ozark, Alabama

Edward Meredith Wilson from Goldwater, Alabama

Alcus Addis Walden from DeFuniak Springs, Florida

#Bob Jones University #Archive #1929 #Bob Jones College #Panama City #Florida #Enrollment

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wonder-and-wildflowers · 4 years

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R E S T I N P E A C E

George Floyd ✞ Trayvon Martin ✞ Breonna Taylor ✞ Ahmaud Arbery ✞ Tamir Rice ✞ Oscar Grant ✞ Eric Garner ✞ Philando Castile ✞ Samuel Dubose ✞ Sandra Bland ✞ Walter Scott ✞ Terrence Crutcher ✞ Regis Korchinski- Paquet ✞ Bothem Jean ✞ Atatiana Jefferson ✞ Jonathan Ferrell ✞ Renisha McBride ✞ Stephon Clark ✞ Jordan Edwards ✞ Jordan Davis ✞ Alton Sterling ✞ Aiyana Jones ✞ Mike Brown ✞ Charleston Nine ✞ Sean Bell ✞ Corey Jones ✞ John Crawford ✞ Keith Scott Clifford Glover ✞ Claude Reese ✞ Randy Evans ✞ Yvonne Smallwood ✞ Amadou Diallo Freddie Gray ✞ Christian Cooper ✞

I'm sorry to the lives lost without evidence, footage, and justice. Im sorry to those killed that I did not name. I'm sorry to the lost that wont be rememebered in relation to the crimes committed against them, as there was no evidence and/or no witnesses. I'm sorry for the souls whose murders haven't been spoken about correctly- because do not doubt that they were murders.

I'm sorry being black is a death sentence that you did nothing to deserve beyond exist.

I'm sorry and I'm angry and nothing we say it will never be enough. Nothing will but we can start by stopping this violence these murders, these crimes.

#BlackLivesMatter #SayTheirNames #RestInPeace #EnoughIsEnough #RememberTheLost #CallForJustice

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starsixtyseven631 · 4 years

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✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackOutTuesday Five skin tones, one race Time has just been stuck in place No Justice No peace Christian Cooper Amaud Arbery Bothem Sean Atatiana Jefferson Jonathan Ferrell Renisha Mcbride Stephon Clark Jordan Edwards Jordan Davis Alton Sterling Aiyana Jones Mike Brown Tamir Rice Charleston 9 Trayvon Martin Sean Bell Oscar Grant Sandra Bland Philando Castile Corey Jones John Crawford Terrance Crutcher Keith Scott Clifford Glover Claude Reese Randy Evans Yvonne Smallwood Amadou Dillo Walter Scott Eric Garner Freddie Gray Breonna Taylor George Floyd I understand that I don’t understand completely, but I stand with you. All lives can’t matter until BlackLivesMatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BlackOutTuesday (at Black lives matter) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8zD-6nLGT/?igshid=10w2iy7n1dez7

#blackouttuesday

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risuave · 4 years

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Even in the dimly lit parking lot of the Woodlands, I could see the glint of the gun at his waistband. Everything seemed to slow as the man uttered his command for me to go back to a country I had never even visited, let alone did not hail from. I could barely hear him, the words barely registered. My entire world became the grip of the gun, not drawn yet still being used to menace. Still being used to exert authority over someone this stranger deemed sub-human.

I've been thinking about that moment from back in 2017 a lot over the past week. Throughout my life, my ethnic ambiguity (courtesy of an Italian father and a Latino mother) has always been a source of pride, and I grew up fully aware yet never questioning the clear advantages it gave me. I would often run through the streets of New York in black jeans and a hoodie in the middle of the night to try and catch a train and never once feared. Officers were the people to seek out when something had gone wrong, not the people to avoid to prevent something going wrong. No one assumed things about me. No one judged me. I was just some kid from relative affluence and with countless opportunities, and the contrary was unfathomable to me. Try as I might, I couldn't ever see it from the other side because I wasn't ON the other side.

Until, for the briefest of moments, I was. Until someone decided I was less just because my skin, skin I had always joked was "white as hell" was just a slight shade to dark for someone.

I have been thinking constantly about that moment this week, and have tried to imagine if that moment, that brief, singular, impactful moment was what defined my entire existence. Not because I did anything. Not because I had made a mistake or taken an action. But just because I was alive.

I tried to imagine a life where every action needed to be thought out to avoid frightening someone.I tried to imagine a life where from a young age I was taught a routine of how not to be murdered. I tried to imagine a life where everything I did would come with a negative assumption. I tried to imagine a life where the simple act of living could be considered a death sentence. And even now, I can't begin to fathom what living like that your whole life is like.

Because George Floyd just wanted to breathe.

Amaud Arbery just wanted to jog.

Breonna Taylor just wanted to sleep in her own bed.

Stephon Clark just wanted to use his own cellphone.

Jordan Edwards just wanted to leave a party.

Keith Scott just wanted to read a book.

Botham Jean just wanted to relax in his house.

Philando Castile just wanted to have his Second Amendment rights.

Alton Sterling just wanted to sell CDs.

Corey Jones just wanted to fix his car problems.

The Charlston 9 just wanted to celebrate mass.

Sandra Bland just wanted it to be a routine traffic ticket.

Freddie Gray just wanted to make it to the station alive.

Tamir Rice just wanted to play in the park.

John Crawford III just wanted to shop at Walmart.

Michael Brown just wanted to get home from the store.

Eric Garner just wanted to breathe.

Jordan Davis just wanted to turn the music up.

Amadou Diallo just wanted to show his ID from his wallet.

Clifford Glover just wanted to walk home to his parents alone.

A life in which every little thing you do can be punished by death. A world in which your very existence is deemed as wrong. A crime. A home that constantly sends you a clear message: "You are nothing. You are less. You are expendable."

The violence is condemnable. The opportunists using peaceful protests to loot to "spoil yo' b**ch" or to further hateful and violent agendas are disgusting. But to question the palpable anger, the rage, the heartbreak and, yes even the destruction at times, is to show willful ignorance. The American idea is that all of us, regardless of race or creed, deserves justice. And the only way that the created system will match that idea is if it's changed.

There's been another thing that's been floating around my mind all week. A quote from the heart of where it all began:

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - The Declaration of Independence.

Superman isn't going to show up to save the day. No one is going to ride in to change the system for us.

So be it. We'll do it ourselves. And maybe one day, no one will have to imagine such a life anymore.

#black lives matter #justice for george floyd

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MAMA #ICANTBREATH! #BLACKLIVESMATTER JUSTICE FOR: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, Yvonne Smallwood, Dominique Clayton, Bettie Jones, Laquan McDonald, , Freddy Gray, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Amadou Diallo, Claude Reese, Randy Evans, Sean Bell, Clifford Glover, Terrence, Crutcher, Keith Scott, Corey Jones, John Crawford, Trayvon Martin, Philando Castille, Sandra Bland, Oscar Grant, Charleston9, Tamir Rice, Renisha McBride, Rodney King, Michael Brown, Jordan Edwards, Aiyana Jones, Alton Sterling, Jordan Davis, Jonathan Ferrell, Botham Jean, Stephon Clark, Atatiana Jefferson, Charleena Lyles... #SAYTHEIRNAME #TAKEAKNEE #VOTE #JUSTICE #DefundThePolice https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-_LGpgcCi/?igshid=df7bpzp72acd

#icantbreath #blacklivesmatter #saytheirname #takeaknee #vote #justice #defundthepolice

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CELEBRATING THE COMPOSITIONS OF WAYNE SHORTER, JAZZ SPECTRUM on WGTE, 18 MARCH 2023

Last week’s show was all Wayne Shorter’s playing on many of these very same tunes as selected by the regular host. He was a wonderful saxophonist, playing with both Art Blakey and Miles Davis (and essentially their music directors/composers) in two of the finest bands of their eras.

On the shared notion that he is also in the next tier of jazz composers just below Ellington/Strayhord and Monk, I took the assignment of showing how the tunes breathe and have a life of their own in the hands of the ever evolving jazz community.

My method was to find interesting/favorite players take up these tunes. Often I relied on the Secondhand Songs website for suggestions. But I had some definite ideas, such as relying on Palladium, an ensemble organized by Jesse Markowitz that plays Wayne Shorter music and includes young heroes like Nicole Glover and Sean Mason. Then there’s both Shorter tunes on the Jimmy Rowles/Stan Getz desert istand album, The Peacocks. And, what to do with the Weather Report era? Easy, Christian McBride did one with his pianoless quartet, New Jawn, that nonetheless conveys all the keyboards and percussion.

That was my first set: Palladium’s ESP that includes Shorter’s own voice, Sightseeing, and Lester Left Town.

I first heard Palladium when they did all of Speak No Evil, so that was the next idea with an array of artists and ensembles assaying that brilliant album.

Sanctuary from Ingrid Jensen and Jason Miles, and, at the end of the night, Masqualero with Marc Copland addressed Shorter’s contribution to Miles’ Bitches Brew. And I closed with Sean Mason’s meditative solo piano version of Weather Report’s Palladium as yet another reflection on how the electric tunes are above all tunes with life beyond the production elements.

But mostly I dug into the Blakey and Miles era tunes from the likes of Dave Liebman/Richie Beirach in Quest, the Dave Douglas/Joe Lovano Shorter tribute band, George Cables, Mary Halvorson in Thumbscrew, Fred Hersch (a couple of times), Kenny Werner.

I took the liberty with the Song of the Week segment to make Footprints the Tune of the Week bookending the original with his return to it with his wonderful latter era quartet. There’s Kenny Barron in there along with the SF Jazz Collective (Renee Rosnes arranged the tune).

It’s all pianists at the end.

Here’s the playlist:

18 March 2023

Set 1 (29:11)

Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “ESP” (14:48)

Christian McBride’s New Jawn, Christian McBride’s New Jawn, “Sightseeing” (8:30)

Jimmy Rowles with Stan Getz, The Peacocks, “Lester Left Town” (5:53)

Set 2 (30:05)

Kirk Lightsey Trio, Isotope, “Witch Hunt” (8:00)

Sal Nastico, Complete Bee Hive Sessions, “Fe Fi Fo Fum”. 5:58

Thumbscrew, Theirs, “Dance Cadaverous” (6:19)

Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne: Explorations of Classic Wayne Shorter Compositions, “Speak No Evil”. 7:17

Set 3 (27:08)

Fred Hersch Trio, Heartsongs, “Infant Eyes” (7:38)

Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, Rumba Buhaina, “Wildflower” (6:44)

Ingrid Jensen/Jason Miles, Kind of New, “Sanctuary” (5:44)

Kenny Kirkland ,Thunder and Rainbows, “Black Nile”. 6:45

Set 4 (29:44)

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints, Scandal, “Juju” 9:05

Stephen Scott, The Beautiful Thing, “Oriental Folk Song,” (4:32)

Nicholas Payton, Mysterious Shorter, “Tom Thumb” (6:41

George Cables, One for My Baby, “Virgo”. 7:34

Set 5

Wayne Shorter, Adam’s Apple, “Footprints” (7:29)

Kenny Barron/Regina Carter, Freefall, “Footprints” (9:37)

SF Jazz Collective, Live 2008: Fifth Annual Concert Tour, “Footprints” (9:44)

Set 6

Cutting Edge, The Cutting Edge, “Footprints” (8:03)

Wayne Shorter, Footprints Live!, “Footprints” (7:55)

Set 7

Ralph Peterson’s Gen Next Big Band, Listen Up, “This is for Albert” (7:04)

Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “Contemplation” (6:48)

Set 8 (25:14)

Quest, Circular Dreaming, “Nefertiti”. 6:23

Jane Ira Bloom/Fred Hersch, “Miyako” (6:41)

Clifford Jordan and the Magic Triangle, On Stage Vol 1, “Pinocchio” (7:30)

Jimmy Rowles/Stan Getz, The Peacocks, “The Chess Players” (5:43)

Set 9 (27:30)

Kenny Werner Trio, Live at Visiones—Standards, “Fall” (5:51)

Joanne Brackeen, Invitation, “Iris” (6:58)

Marc Copland, At Night, “Masqualero” (4:56)

Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “Palladium” (10:45)

#jazz #2023 #jazz spectrum #wgte

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