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Sharing, Connecting, Healing

In “Ghanaian-American II,” artist Lloyd Foster confronts his dual identity and cultures.

Lloyd Foster / Touchstone Gallery

There’s Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity and Mental Well-being, a landmark publication from author and conceptual artist Glenn Lutz (b. 1988).

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Meet Ronnie!!

Hi! I’m Ronnie. I’m 16 and I live in the US EST. I have a side blog called @babydwaekki and I published an OC GG on there. I’m Ghanaian American, Christian, autistic, and I support the LGBTQIA+ community. Any hate will be deleted and you will be blocked. If you have any problems with my blog talk to me! I love kpop. My ult groups are SKZ, ITZY, and TWICE, but I listen to other artists like Tate McRae :)

What you’ll mostly find with reblogs on this account will mostly be about Danny Phantom and DC crossovers. Other than that i reblog whatever I find funny or agree with.

I watch wrestling. Mainly WWE. My favorite wrestlers are Rhea Ripley and Roman Reigns. If you wanna use the ask button to talk with me about WWE I’m all ears! I don’t really watch AEW and the only one I really know is Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose. AEW seems nice, it’s just not my cup of tea. My favorite WWE show is Friday Night Smackdown because I can stay up to watch the whole show unlike Raw because my mom doesn’t want me staying up til 11 on Mondays :(

I’m trying to get more into anime as the only one I’m really interested in is Attack on Titan. I don’t usually decide to watch shows that have episodes longer than half an hour because I get restless. There’s an exception, and it’s shows that are action packed and fast paced (Ex: SWAT, The Flash 2014).

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Background information

Birth name Leslie Coleman McCann

Born September 23, 1935 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.

Died December 29, 2023 (aged 88) Los Angeles, California,

U.S.Genres

Jazz, soul jazz

Occupation(s)Musician Instrument(s) Piano,vocals

Years active 1959–2018

Leslie Coleman McCann (September 23, 1935 – December 29, 2023) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.[1] He is known for his innovations in soul jazz and his 1969 recording of the protest song "Compared to What". His music has been widely sampled in hip hop.

Early life

Leslie Coleman McCann was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on September 23, 1935.[2] He grew up in a musical family with three sisters, most of whom sang in church choirs.[3][4] His father was a fan of jazz music and his mother was known to hum opera tunes around the house.[4]

As a youth, McCann played the tuba and drums and performed in his school's marching band.[3][4] As a pianist, he was largely self-taught.[5] He explained that he only received piano lessons for a few weeks as a six-year-old before his teacher died.[3]

McCann attended Los Angeles City College, which was highly influential to his musical career.[6] At the age of 17, he joined the U.S. Navy in San Diego.[6]

Career

During his service in the Navy, McCann won a singing contest, which led to an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.[1] After leaving the Navy, McCann moved to California and played in his own trio.[5] He declined an offer to work in Cannonball Adderley's band so that he could dedicate himself to his own music.[5] The trio's first job was at the Purple Onion club in 1959 accompanying Gene McDaniels.[3]

McCann (left) with the Les McCann Trio (Herbie Lewis and Ron Jefferson), 1962

The main part of McCann's career began in the early 1960s, when he recorded as a pianist with his trio for Pacific Jazz.[7] In 1969, Atlantic released Swiss Movement, an album recorded with saxophonist Eddie Harris and trumpeter Benny Bailey earlier at that year's Montreux Jazz Festival.[8] The album contained the song "Compared to What"; both reached the Billboard pop charts. The song, which criticized the Vietnam War, was written by Eugene McDaniels years earlier and recorded and released as a ballad by McCann in 1966 on his album, Les McCann Plays the Hits. Roberta Flack's version appeared as the opening track on her debut album First Take (1969).[9][10]

After the success of Swiss Movement, McCann, primarily a piano player, emphasized his vocals. He became an innovator in soul jazz, merging jazz with funk, soul and world rhythms. His music was influential for its use of electric piano, clavinet and synthesizer.[11]

In 1971, McCann and Harris were part of a group of soul, R&B and rock performers–including Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, Santana and Ike & Tina Turner–who flew to Accra, Ghana, to perform a 14-hour concert for more than 100,000 Ghanaians. The March 6 concert was recorded for the documentary film Soul to Soul.[12] In 2004, the movie was released on DVD with an accompanying soundtrack album.[13]

McCann had a stroke in the mid-1990s,[7] but he returned to music in 2002, when Pump it Up was released, and continued to release music until 2018.[11] He also exhibited his work as a painter and photographer.[1]

Death

McCann died from pneumonia in a Los Angeles hospital on December 29, 2023, at the age of 88.[6]

Legacy

McCann's recordings have been widely sampled in hip hop music, mostly in the 1990s and 2000s, by nearly 300 acts.[11][14] These include A Tribe Called Quest, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, the Notorious B.I.G., Sean Combs, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Mary J. Blige, the Pharcyde, Eric B. & Rakim, Mobb Deep, Gang Starr and Raekwon.[11][15]

Discography

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As leader

Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1960)

Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shout (Pacific Jazz, 1960; Sunset, 1970)

Les McCann Ltd. in San Francisco (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

Pretty Lady (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

Les McCann Sings (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

Somethin' Special with Richard "Groove" Holmes (Pacific Jazz, 1962)

Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Pacific Jazz, 1962)

On Time (Pacific Jazz, 1962)

The Gospel Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shampoo (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

McCanna (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

Jazz Waltz with the Jazz Crusaders (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

Spanish Onions (Pacific Jazz, 1964)

McCann/Wilson with Gerald Wilson (Pacific Jazz, 1964)

Soul Hits (Pacific Jazz, 1964)

Beaux J. Pooboo (Limelight, 1965)

But Not Really (Limelight, 1965)

Les McCann Plays the Hits (Limelight, 1966)

A Bag of Gold (Pacific Jazz, 1966)

Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole (Limelight, 1966)

Live at Bohemian Caverns–Washington, D.C. (Limelight, 1967)

Bucket o' Grease (Limelight, 1967)

From the Top of the Barrel (Pacific Jazz, 1967)

More or Les McCann (World Pacific, 1969)

Much Les (Atlantic, 1969)

Swiss Movement with Eddie Harris (Atlantic, 1969)

New from the Big City (World Pacific, 1970)

Comment (Atlantic, 1970)

Second Movement with Eddie Harris (Atlantic, 1971)

Invitation to Openness (Atlantic, 1972)

Talk to the People (Atlantic, 1972)

Live at Montreux (Atlantic, 1973)

Layers (Atlantic, 1973)

Another Beginning (Atlantic, 1974)

Doldinger Jubilee '75 (Atlantic, 1975)

Hustle to Survive (Atlantic, 1975)

River High, River Low (Atlantic, 1976)

Music Lets Me Be (ABC/Impulse!, 1977)

Change, Change, Change (ABC/Impulse!, 1977)

The Man (A&M, 1978)

Tall, Dark & Handsome (A&M, 1979)

The Longer You Wait (Jam, 1983)

Music Box (Jam, 1984)

Road Warriors with Houston Person (Greene Street, 1984)

Butterfly (Stone, 1988)

Les Is More (Night, 1990)

On the Soul Side (MusicMasters, 1994)

Listen Up! (MusicMasters, 1996)

Pacifique with Joja Wendt (MusicMasters, 1998)

How's Your Mother? (32 Jazz, 1998)

Pump It Up (ESC, 2002)

Vibrations: Funkin' Around Something Old Something New (Jazz Legend Project) (Leafage Jazz/Pony Canyon, 2003)

The Shout (American Jazz Classics, 2011)

28 Juillet (Fremeaux, 2018)[citation needed]

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South Korea & Switzerland Followed Portugal & Brazil's R16 Lead in Epic Fashion

A Recap of Groups G & H of the 2022 FIFA World Cup

South Korean players celebrated with fans as soon as they found out they made it to the Round of 16 (📸 Getty Images via 90min)

The last two groups commenced with the two simultaneous matches of Group G, where South Korea took Portugal and Uruguay took Ghana, respectively. For the latter, the scars of 2010 were put into the spotlight, where it ended the Uruguayan penalty after the penalty shootout, which was preceded by Luis Suarez’s red card as he tried to save the potential conceding with his hands (thus, a handball) as if he was the goalkeeper. 12 years later, in the press conference leading up to this match, Suarez stated that he would not apologize for that handball, and about the penalty, it was the executor's responsibility.

Both matches started with intensity, where Ricardo Horta scored an early goal at 5', thanks to his volley in the penalty box range to give Portugal the lead 1-0. Meanwhile, the VAR was involved in checking the event preceding Jordan Ayew's chance, where Sergio Rochet brought down Mohammed Kudus. It was declared a penalty, where Rochet denied Andre Ayew the chance to score.

After several notable chances, including where Mohammed Salisu cut a potential goal shot from Darwin Nuñez, there came two goals one after another from two different matches: First, Uruguay secured their lead after Nuñez's strike to the box was left unresponded by the Ghanaian defense for their 1-0 lead. Then, South Korea equalized their position 1-1 with a goal from Kim Young-Gwon, benefitting from the ball rebounded to Cristiano Ronaldo and hence the mis-pass, and fired it right away to the goal net. To continue the scramble, Giorgian de Arrascaeta scored at 31' after a working volley executed right after several passes to him. Both teams hung on until the end of the first half, some with several remarkable chances that could turn things around, for example, Portugal with their precision.

Somehow, the second half had both teams also hanging on. They had their chances, especially after Kamaldeen Sulemana and Osman Bukari was substituted in. Portugal also controlled their ball possession, but no chances were maximized. A foul in the Uruguay v. Ghana match was examined by the VAR, where the Uruguayan appeal did not make it through for a potential penalty. On the other hand, Hwang Hee-Chan scored a late goal in a response to Son Heung-Min's pass in 91', strengthening the South Korean advancing position in the standings with a 2-1 lead turned victory against Portugal.

Having finished their match earlier, South Koreans waited for the last 3 minutes for the final standings to take effect:

The final standings of Group H (📸 FlashScore)

...where the Ghanaian victory was not enough for them to pass Uruguay, hence ensuring the South Korean qualification to the Round of 16 due to the "who scored more" part in the tie-breaker, where they scored 2 more goals than Ghana.

With this advancement, they became the third Asian country (after Japan and Australia, the latter because of their confederation being on the Asian side instead of the Oceanian) to qualify, as well as making it possible for the representative of all continents to advance, while there are more Asian representatives than the South American. However, the story did not end here yet.

Last Minute-Qualification Again... and A Legendary Red Card to End Group G

Vincent Aboubakar was handed an indirect red card after his celebration (🎥 Kan 11 via Reshet 13 Live Stream Feed)

Competing with Group H in terms of intensity, Group G had Serbia v. Switzerland and Cameroon v. Brazil as a closing to the group stage. The former had another factor involved, particularly because of several players having a Kosovar-Albanian background, such as Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka. Either way, here is how the match went.

Serbia v. Switzerland started more aggressively with an early chance from Breel Embolo just 30' in from the penalty box, when it was saved at the end. The goal party started when Xherdan Shaqiri secured the lead for Switzerland in 20', before it was equalized by Aleksandar Mitrovic's header in 25'. Both teams counter-attacked each other until there were two additional goals from both teams: Dusan Vlahovic at 35' benefitting from the Swiss mis-pass for his shot, and Embolo himself at 44' with a smooth finish to the goal post.

While the first half of Serbia v. Switzerland went dynamic, it was not the case with Cameroon v. Brazil, where both teams had their chances, but nothing got converted. In this case, Brazil had more on-target chances, which did not get materialized at the end. It was not until near the end of the match, where Vincent Aboubakar's header helped Cameroon to be the first African team to defeat Brazil in the World Cup at the beginning of the injury time, at the expense of him being sent off with an indirect red card after his celebration. On the other hand, Switzerland's quick start enabled them to score even earlier, where Remo Freuler scored the goal at 48' after completing the passes from Embolo and Shaqiri, where the latter clipped a ball atop of Ruben Vargas previously.

Both Switzerland and Serbia held on to the 3-2 scoreline by the end of the match. Brazil also had their chances, but they did not materialize at the end. By the time the final whistle blew, the standings stood as follows:

The final standings of Group G (📸 FlashScore)

Brazil maintained their status as the group winner because of them nailing the goal difference, before Switzerland advanced because of their victory. However, the previous loss against Switzerland and the draw against Serbia was not enough for Cameroon to advance, even though they won against Brazil in the third match. Hence, Brazil will face South Korea and Switzerland will face Portugal in the Round of 16, which matches will be held in Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

This match marked the end of the group stage, which means the commencement of the Round of 16. With no one having a perfect point in the group stage (9), the field is wide open. A draw would mean an extra time and penalty shootout to settle them all, when needed.

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Ryan garcia next fight

#Ryan garcia next fight professional#

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Garcia is a polarising figure amongst fight fans: he is either the next big thing, or an Instagram model masquerading as boxer. On July 16, Ryan Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) dominated former WBA super-featherweight world champion, Javier Fortuna, dropping the Dominican three times en route to a sixth-round knockout, at the Arena, California. Promotional offers not available in Nevada and New York. What Next For Ryan Garcia Written by John A MacDonald on 18th July 2022. Sports betting is void in Georgia, Hawaii, Ohio and Utah and other states where prohibited.

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#Ryan garcia next fight professional#

The 23-year old suffered his first-ever professional knockdown when Campbell connected a perfectly-timed hook that caught him right in the chin, downing him in the second round. The biggest test by far in his young career came in his last outing against Luke Campbell when they crossed paths in January 2021.

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❝ 𝐉 𝐄 𝐍 ❞

ⓘ BASICS ¡!

STAGE NAME jen ˒ 젠

BIRTH NAME jennifer juliet annan

REPRESENTATIVE GEM diamond

BIRTHDAY 05 nov 2001

ZODIAC scorpio ˒ ♏︎

PLACE OF BIRTH new york ˒ usa

HOMETOWN manhattan ˒ new york

ETHNICITY swiss-italian-ghanaian

NATIONALITY american

LANGUAGES english ˒ swiss-german ˒ korean

ⓘ PHYSIQUE ¡!

FACE CLAIM meret manon bannerman

HEIGHT 169cm ˒ 5'6

BLOOD TYPE A-

ⓘ CAREER ¡!

OCCUPATION idol ˒ child model

LABEL sm ent.

GROUP nct ❪ 2022 - ❫

SUB-UNIT nct krown ❪ 2022 - ❫

POSITIONS lead dancer ˒ lead rapper

TRAINING 2 yrs @ sm ent

DEBUT ❪ loading . . . ❫

ⓘ FAMILY ¡!

MOTHER anna buhler

FATHER john annan

BROTHER alexander anna ❪ ‘11 ❫

ⓘ PERSONALITY ¡!

MBTI istp

POSITIVE compassionate ˒ relaxed ˒ great listener ˒ sweet

NEGATIVE snooty ˒ picky ˒ stubborn ˒ cold at first

ⓘ HISTORY ¡!

jennifer “jen” juliet anna was born on the 5th of november 2001 in manhattan new york to anna and john annan founder and ceo of annan & co a world renowned law firm and office. her younger brother alexander “alex” annan was born in may 11th 2011 and jen loves him more than anything. she never liked being an only child and despite their big age gap she considers him her best friend.

jen grew up amongst the uber rich and was part of it herself. as a child she was a model for many brands and was in many commercials and ad campaigns. she attended a prestigious all girl private school and she was student body president every year and was valedictorian in her senior year. many thought that she would go to an ivy league school and take over her family’s law firm but she did not.

throughout her life jen had been pressured to follow in her family’s footsteps but after graduation she decided that college was not what she wanted to do. she had always had a passion for music and dance and was inspired by snsd to be an idol. she told her parents that if she didn’t get into a company by the end of the year then she would come back and be a lawyer. luckily for her after attending the famous sm saturday auditions she got in after only being in korea for a month.

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Philippa Schuyler photographed by Carl Van Vechten on February 22, 1949.

Philippa Duke Schuyler (August 2, 1931 – May 9, 1967) was a child prodigy who played at Carnegie Hall and around the world. She was the daughter of George Schuyler, a prominent black journalist and Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, a white Texan heiress. Her parents believed that interracial marriages were beneficial for humanity and would produce extraordinary offspring. 

Philippa was recognized as a prodigy at an early age. She was able to read and write at 2, playing Schumann and Mozart at 4 and by 5 she was writing her own compositions.  Philippa was subjected to a strict diet of only raw foods and her mother entered her in every possible music competition. New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was a fan of hers and declared June 19, 1940 "Philippa Duke Schuyler Day" at the New York World's Fair, where she performed two piano recitals. At 11, she became the youngest member of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. She spoke six languages and after graduating from high school at 15, she traveled the world performing for dignitaries. 

Philippa encountered racism as she grew older. She had trouble finding acceptance by the classical elite in the United States, so she attempted to find an audience abroad. At one point she tried to pass herself off as a Spanish woman named Felipa Monterro y Schuyler. In 1965, she endured a late-term abortion in Tijuana after an affair with a Ghanaian diplomat because she wanted to reproduce with an Aryan man. She later became a journalist, and while in Vietnam as a war correspondent, she was killed in U.S. Army helicopter crash during a mission to evacuate Vietnamese orphans. She survived the crash into the sea, but was unable to swim and drowned. Her mother committed suicide two years later.

Halle Berry reportedly bought the rights to film Schuyler’s biography, and planned on producing a biopic starring Alicia Keys as Philippa in 2004.

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kofi siriboe.     he/him.     cis man.      ›spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,   jalen harrison   ,   most   likely   listening   to   DNA.   by   kendrick lamar   with   their   airpods   pro   .   the   twenty-eight  gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -closed off   yet   +driven   to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you'll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about   the   feeling   of   the   moment   right   before   the   ball   is   dropped   into   your   hands,   knowing   that   there’s   a   cornerback   on   your   tail,   but   knowing   even   more   that   the   end   zone   is   only   fifteen   yards   away   and   you   can   make   it   //   the   feeling   of   an   ice   bath   after   a   hard   workout   //   legacy.   knowing   that   when   you   line   up   for   the   first   play   of   a   game,   the   commentators   are   remarking   on   your   father   to   the   people   watching   from   home,   and   how   you’re   reaching   his   record   stats   //   an   exclusive   brotherhood,   though   you   fear   losing   them   if   they   were   to   truly   see   you   for   who   you   are   ,   followed   by   l'immensité   by   louis vuitton   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   perpetual   bachelor   jalen   harrison   spotted   with   a   mystery   girl   at   this   exclusive   nyc   club!   is   the   giants’   wide   receiver   finally   settling   down?   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   .   

DEMOGRAPHICS

name: jalen harrison

nicknames: six // jay

age: 28

gender: cis man, he/him

occupation: wide receiver for the new york giants

sexuality: homosexual (closeted. will not admit this. will laugh and dismiss the question if you were to ask.)

residence: condo in flatiron

ethnicity: ghanaian-american

languages: english

social class: upper 

education level: two years of a sports marketing degree from the ohio state university

APPEARANCE

height: 6′2"

build: athletic

hair: black, kept buzzed at most times.

eyes: brown

piercings: both lobes pierced, typically has diamond studs in

tattoos: ohio state block o on his right bicep, a crab on his left thigh, his dad's number while playing for the ravens (7) on his right arm. the names of his mom and sisters on his left forearm. 

PERSONALITY

+ hardworking, driven, outgoing, passionate

- secretive, instigator, cowardly (but hides that to the best of his ability) 

aesthetics: the feeling of the moment right before the ball is dropped into your hands, knowing that there's a cornerback on your tail, but knowing even more that the end zone is only fifteen yards away and you can make it // the feeling of an ice bath after a hard workout // legacy. knowing that when you line up for the first play of a game, the commentators are remarking on your father to the people watching from home, and how you're reaching his record stats // an exclusive brotherhood, though you fear losing them if they were to truly see you for who you are // trading in a scarlet and gray jersey for a blue and white one, away games almost reminiscent of college years in color alone, but there's nothing quite like a home crowd cheering your name. // two fingers of whiskey on the rocks, kicked back on the couch after a good practice, espn on in the background, but you aren't really paying attention to anything but the name on the phone screen beside you.

PEOPLE TO KNOW (NPCs unless otherwise noted)

caimile harrison, worked at nasa while jalen was growing up, retired. mother

cameron harrison, played for the baltimore ravens for 11 years, retired. will occasionally go on espn to commentate on games. father 

jasmine harrison, 33, professor at the university of maryland older sister

kayla harrison, 31, neurosurgeon older sister

three nieces, all under the age of 11

SKILLS, HOBBIES, MISC INFO

hobbies ;; video games (plays mostly fps, think valorant and apex legends, though he doesn't have much time to play during the season), whiskey/wine tastings, spending time with his teammates, streetwear design (very minimal) 

likes ;; streetwear, good whiskey, his nieces, the feeling of getting into an ice bath after a hard practice, the hard practices in and of themselves, ohio state football on saturdays, basketball, old bay seasoning.

dislikes;; the whole state of michigan, societal pressures, trying to figure out how long a soccer game lasts, people getting to know him too well, times square, self-repression.

wears the number 6 and plays wide receiver for the new york giants. (read: his job is to catch the balls the quarterback throws after running downfield)

ABOUT

the youngest child of three born to cameron and caimile harrison, born in baltimore, maryland during his father's off-season. the only son, his father's pride and joy. his older sisters loved dressing jalen up, playing house with him, spending time with him. jalen would say that there was never a moment of peace in his house growing up, but he loves his sisters with all of his heart.

cameron was in his fifth year of playing wide receiver for the ravens when jalen was born. he was drafted to the ravens during the first round of the nfl draft after his sophomore season in college. he went to ohio state, and practically raised jalen to be a buckeye wide receiver from the day jalen could catch a ball.

cameron and caimile gave jalen and his sisters a great upbringing. every weekend during the football season, caimile and the kids did everything in their power to make it to cameron's games. they only missed a handful of games the whole time jalen was alive; some of his earliest memories are getting to cheer for his father as he ran out onto the field. that's what kicked the dream of jalen playing football from just belonging to cameron to being jalen's, too.

jalen played wide receiver at ohio state for two years, declaring for the draft as soon as he was eligible. columbus was great, the people were great, the fans were great, he loved his coaching staff, and truly credits them for turning him into the player he is today. he's still in contact with a lot of his former teammates, and loves exchanging jerseys with them when they play against each other. those signed jerseys are some of his prized possessions.

during his time at ohio state, jalen had a relationship of-sorts with his quarterback at the time, who now plays in the league, as well. this is the only true romantic relationship that jalen has ever had, solely because he keeps himself closeted. he loves the sport he plays, and it genuinely has a huge amount of his heart, but he fears repercussions from coming out. he wants to keep playing the game, he doesn't want to hear what his father may or may not have to say about his life, and, ultimately, he's terrified of what could happen if he even dares suggest something other than being straight, which is why he's seen as a perpetual bachelor of sorts.

baltimore is home to him; that's where his parents still live, and that's where his sisters set up homes, too. during the off-season, he likes to travel down there to be with them, to have crab boils, to just get to spend time with the people he loves.

that being said, 8 years playing for the giants has turned new york into his home, too. he loves the city, loves how he can do what he wants when he wants to, loves that it really does feel like the city that never sleeps to him. after all, he's made it, he's truly just living the dream, now.

GOSSIP

perpetual   bachelor   jalen   harrison   spotted   with   a   mystery   girl   at   this   exclusive   nyc   club!   is   the   giants’   wide   receiver   finally   settling   down? 

this was probably just one of his friends tbh. he's very obviously not dating a woman, but he loves spending time with his friends, and, given that he was raised around girls, he's found that a lot of his friends outside of football have been women.

CAREER

was on the ohio state buckeyes football squad in 2013 & the national championship winning team in 2014, declared for the draft in 2015 and was selected ninth by the new york giants; their only first round draft pick that year.

has played wide receiver for the new york giants for 8 years, won rookie of the year his first year in the league, and has made the pro bowl 7 of those years. he likes to think of himself as kind of a big deal. he's good at what he does, and he fully expects that he'll be playing in the meadowlands until he retires. he loves football, he loves his teammates, and he loves the city of new york.

CONNECTIONS

platonic

high school best friend — (  from baltimore, these two were like shadows growing up, always around each other. jalen trusts them more than almost anybody. this is probably the only other person (aside from jalen's college qb) that knows that he's gay, and jalen trusts them to keep that to themself. ) //

friends — (  whether they're from baltimore, columbus, or new york, these are the people jalen's hanging out with in the off-season. they get drinks, see movies, play video games, watch other sports, spend time outside, travel together. that being said, they don't know that jalen's gay. ) //

video game pals — (  they met online in a random matchup, but, hey, turns out they live in new york too! they met up at a bar after, like, years of playing together, and now they hang out offline as well as online. ) //

players' kids — (  anyone whose father was playing in the nfl around the same time jalen's dad was. they all know of each other, whether or not they're athletes themselves. jalen likes to think that he's got an open door policy for these fellow kids-turned-adults, and if anybody needs him, he's around to help however he can. ) //

career

teammates — ( fellow players on the new york giants. i will commit crimes to have jalen's teammates around. ) //

other new york athletes — ( yankees, mets, jets, nets, knicks, rangers, you name them, jalen probably knows them. he likes to think of them as a sort of new york sports family. ) //

buckeyes — ( read: former teammates. played at ohio state, now either play on the jets or are retired from football but live in new york. ) //

coaching/support staff — (  anyone who works within/around the giants organization. ) //

negative

rival — ( someone in the league who also took the player's kid -> player pipeline. probably also a wide receiver. lots of sportscaster comparisons between these two. bonus points if he went to the university of michigan. ) //

knows. — ( this person knows that jalen isn't straight. this is the one person who managed to slip through jalen's tightly constructed walls. jalen feels like he owes them a debt to keep them quiet. genuinely a thing of nightmares for him. they probably aren't blackmailing him, but jalen's scared of the world knowing, so he distrusts them. ) //

romantic

ex pr-relationship, of sorts. — ( jalen's own constructed pr relationship. she may not have known it was a pr relationship, only that things weren't working between them. she probably broke it off. this is within the past 8 years. ) //

ex (high school) — ( the only other time jalen has publicly dated a woman was in high school. they grew up in baltimore together, he really did like her! he just didn't get why he didn't like her the way he should have liked her. she was probably his first kiss. ) //

the college quarterback — ( eyes emoji. see wc on the main. ) // semaj houston.

[needsomesorrel]

i’ll try and leave the main details for under the cut but the gist is that i’ve been trying (keyword here) my hand at digital art recently! it’s definitely a learning process and A LOT harder than i expected it to be but the first piece i’m semi-proud of is done i’d love to share it (even though i have been sitting on it for a while)! it’s also a way of introducing another oc to the world, so two birds, one stone here, i guess :)

this is my ava-mancing detective, wade talla <3

stats and quick facts:

pronouns: she/her

sexuality: homosexual

main skill: combat/physical

most prominent personality traits: impulsive and stubborn, acts according to her heart, tends to bend the rules and is very independent

best friends: morgan/tina

drink of choice: water

fun facts:

has 11 piercings (guess where the other ones are :) and 9 tattoos

from Rook’s side, she has full Afro-Caribbean (Martinican) heritage, but from Rebecca’s side, she has Ghanaian (Akan) heritage from her grandmother and American? white heritage from her grandfather… who had blond hair. never mind the fact that Rebecca herself doesn’t have blond hair, somehow that very recessive gene got passed the fuck down. genetics work hard, but the white man works harder, huh…

has a middle name: ace! (given to her by rook)

alright, this is just me rambling to myself at this point, but another fact about wade is that i based her off of a character i’d already made and made it fit for wayhaven... but that oc has a twin whose name is rico talla (my f-mancing detective). it never really occurred to me that i should change one of their last names but now i have two detective tallas with the same rebecca and rook and at this point i’m okay with that lmfao

i can’t wait to write some stuff for her!! she’s like the complete opposite of my personality, so it’s really fun to just kind of let loose with her :)

also... is it obvious that i haven’t figured out how to do hair yet 😔

[implexis]

1957

Jan 1  Bolivia has been suffering from inflation. The US is concerned about radicalism in Latin America.  US financial aid to Bolivia is greater than any other country relative to the size of that country's population. The US is subsidizing 30 percent of the Bolivian government's central budget.

Jan 5  In the wake of the Suez crisis, President Eisenhower asks Congress to create economic aid and military assistance to prevent Soviet expansion into the Middle East – the Eisenhower Doctrine.

Jan 9  Stress during the Suez crisis breaks Anthony Eden's health. He resigns as Prime Minister and is replaced by Harold Macmillan.

Jan 10  Responding to what is considered the decline of France and Britain in world affairs, Eisenhower proclaims his administration's commitment to the defense of the entire free world.

Jan 10  In Montgomery Alabama, six African-American churches and the home of two ministers are bombed.

Jan 14  Humphrey Bogart, actor and heavy smoker, dies at the age of 57 from cancer of the esophagus.

Jan 16  French colons in Algeria want a more energetic commander in the fight against the Algerian independence movement. They attempt to assassinate General Salan, using a bazooka, killing instead a colonel.

Jan 19 The United Nations is urging Israel to withdraw its troops from Egypt's Sinai territory.

Jan 22  Premier David Ben-Gurion of Israel withdraws his nation's troops from Egypt's Sinai territory.

Feb 7  In the US, King Saud and Eisenhower agree to a five-year renewal of the US lease of the airbase at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. King Saud supports the Eisenhower Doctrine.

Feb 11  US Communists are chided by a leader of the French Communist Party, Jacques Duclos, for "dangerous" tendencies. Duclos has urged solidarity with Soviet foreign policy. The US Communist Party asserts its independence from the Soviet Communist Party.  

Feb 14  In New Orleans, the Southern Leadership Conference is created, with Martin Luther King Jr. elected as president.

Mar 6  Ghana becomes the first African country to gain independence from Britain. The Duchess of Kent opens an Independence Monument where, in 1948, members of the Ghanaian ex-servicemen's union were shot while marching to present a petition to the British Governor.

Mar 20 The French newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army has tortured Algerian prisoners.

Mar 21  Vice President Nixon returns from a 22-day tour of Africa. He reports that Africa is an area of conflict "between the forces of freedom and international Communism."

Mar 25  Economic cooperation, in the form of the European Commission for Steel and Coal, develops into the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community – steps away from the narrow nationalism that had divided Europe and toward the creation of the European Union.

Mar 31 Israel has given the Gaza Strip back to Egypt.

Apr 9  Egypt opens the Suez Canal for all shipping.

Apr 12  A copy of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by US customs on the grounds that it is obscene.

May 2  Senator Joe McCarthy dies of acute hepatitis.

May 13  Chuck Berry is playing music that white teenagers enjoy and he has risen to the top of the Rhythm & Blues chart.

May 29  Algerian rebels kill 336 they deem as collaborators.

Jun 1  The French believe that Algerian rebels are entering Algeria across the border with Tunisia. Premier Bourguiba of Tunisia states that French troops should not cross into his country without permission from his government.

Jun 2  Interviewed on "Face the Nation," Nikita Khrushchev says: "I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism. And please do not be afraid of that. Your grandchildren will ... not understand how their grandparents did not understand the progressive nature of a Socialist society."

Jun 17  The US Supreme Court rules the Smith Act unconstitutional. US Communists are being freed from accusations of crime.

Jun 18  In the Soviet Union's Presidium (formerly the Politburo) Malenkov, Molotov & Kaganovich organize a vote to dismiss Nikita Khrushchev.

Jun 27 Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, and kills 400 people.

Jul 2  Investments by the French in oil in Algeria's Sahara region are based on a calculation that Algeria will not win independence.

Jul 3 Khrushchev wins against Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and Voroshilov. They are denounced as "Anti-Party."  Molotov is banished as ambassador to Mongolia. Malenkov becomes the manager of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan. Kaganovich is made director of a small potassium plant in the Urals. Voroshilov switches to supporting Khrushchev. It's a change from what happened to such losers in the Stalin era.

Jul 17  Eisenhower declares that he cannot imagine any set of circumstances that would induce him to send federal troops to the South.

Jul 22  French Polynesia becomes an overseas territory of France. The islanders become French citizens.

Jul 25  Habib Bourguiba is elected President of Tunisia. He  abolishes the constitutional monarchy, a 250-year dynasty, turning Tunisia into a republic.

Aug 1  In his first interview as president, Bourguiba announces that his government will be Western in sympathy and policy. Bourguiba is going to oppose Islamic fundamentalism, and he will promote secularism and women's rights. He intentds to prohibit polygamy, legalize divorce and to raise the age at which girls can marry to seventeen.

Aug 24  William F. Buckley's magazine, National Review , editorializes: "The central question that emerges … is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes — the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race." The editorial adds that "The South confronts one grave moral challenge. It must not exploit the fact of Negro backwardness to preserve the Negro as a servile class."

Sep 4  Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling at Little Rock's Central High School.

Sep 18  Secretary of State Dulles predicts that in a few years the Western powers may be able to defend themselves with tactical nuclear weapons in the event of a non-nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.

Sep 20  A federal court orders Governor Faubus to remove the National Guard.

Sep 23  Nine black students enter Little Rock High School under police protection but are removed in fear of mob violence.

Sep 24  President Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas Nation Guard and sends 1,000 from 101 Airborne Division to Little Rock "to prevent anarchy."  Senator Barry Goldwater, establishing himself as a leader among conservatives, opposes Eisenhower's move – although he is not a segregationist.

Oct 4  The Soviet Union launches the world's first orbiting satellite, Sputnik.

Oct 10  Ayn Rand's heaviest book of fiction, Atlas Shrugged, her philosophical magnus opus, is published.

Oct 15  Since the month of March, the French in the city of Algiers have been conducting a counter-insurgency campaign, led by General Jacques Massu. They have weakened the independence organization in Algiers, the FLN, and re-established French authority. They have used torture, but intelligence gathered from the torture has contributed little to their success. Their success has been the result of accurate intelligence obtained through informants and the application of overwhelming military force. Torture has been turning more people against the French and in favor of the temporarily weakened FLN.

Oct 31  Malaya becomes independent within the Commonwealth. A war being won there against Communist guerrillas continues.

Oct 31  In the southern half of Vietnam, where Ngo Dien Diem is defending his rule, peasants are being put into communities surrounded by barbed wire. Communists and other supporters of Ho Chi Minh in the South are under attack. Ho Chi Minh's supporters have been annoyed at the slowness of the North to act. The North starts organizing new fighting units in the South – the Vietcong.

Nov 3 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, which has a dog named Laika aboard.

Nov 7  The Gaither Report, authored by Paul Nitze and others, is given to President Eisenhower. The report calls for having Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers in the air at all times, putting long range missiles in underground silos and developing a massive shelter program to protect civilians in case of a nuclear war.  

Nov 25  Eisenhower has a stroke. From now on his speech will by slightly impaired.

Nov 30  In Indonesia a group of Muslims hurl grenades at President Sukarno while he is leaving a school. Ten are killed and 48 children injured.

Dec 6  The United States tries to launch its first satellite. It blows up on the launch pad.

Dec 10  In Stockholm, Albert Camus wins the Noble Prize for literature.

to 1956 | to 1958

[emerald-studies]

The thoughtful Stokely Carmichael 

“As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael challenged the philosophy of nonviolence and interracial alliances that had come to define the modern civil rights movement, calling instead for “Black Power.” Although critical of the “Black Power” slogan, King acknowledged that “if Stokely Carmichael now says that nonviolence is irrelevant, it is because he, as a dedicated veteran of many battles, has seen with his own eyes the most brutal white violence against Negroes and white civil rights workers, and he has seen it go unpunished” (King, 33–34).

Carmichael was born on 29 June 1941 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He moved to New York when he was 11, joining his parents, who had settled there 9 years earlier. Carmichael attended the elite Bronx High School of Science, where he met veteran black radicals and Communist activists. In 1960, as a senior in high school, Carmichael learned about the sit-in movement for desegregation in the South and joined activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) protesting in New York against Woolworth stores, a chain that maintained segregated lunch counters in the South.

Carmichael enrolled as a philosophy major at Howard University in 1960 and joined the university’s Nonviolent Action Group, which was affiliated with SNCC. In addition to working against segregation in Washington, D.C., Carmichael traveled south on the Freedom Rides. When the freedom riders traveled to Mississippi, Carmichael was arrested for the first time. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) awarded Carmichael a scholarship designed to support arrested students, and he continued his studies at Howard. Throughout his four years in college, Carmichael participated in civil rights activities ranging from the Albany Movement to New York hospital strikes.

After graduating in 1964, Carmichael joined SNCC’s staff full time, working on the Mississippi Freedom Summer project and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Carmichael found himself frustrated by what he saw as unsuccessful agitation for political rights, and grew skeptical of the prospects for interracial activism within the existing political structure.

After the Selma to Montgomery March in March 1965, Carmichael stayed in Alabama to help rural African Americans outside Selma form the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an all black, independent political group that became known as the Black Panther Party. (Activists Bobby Seale and Huey Newton would later borrow the Black Panther symbol when organizing the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California in October 1966.) He recalled how people in Lowndes County responded to King’s leadership: “People loved King … I’ve seen people in the South climb over each other just to say, ‘I touched him! I touched him!’ … The people didn’t know what was SNCC.” When asked, “You one of Dr. King’s men?” he replied, “Yes, Ma’am, I am” (Carson, 164).

Carmichael had always seen nonviolence as a tactic, rather than a guiding principle. In May 1966 Carmichael replaced John Lewis as chairman of SNCC, a move that signaled a shift in the student movement from an emphasis on nonviolence and integration toward black militancy. One month later, Carmichael, King, and CORE’s Floyd McKissick collectively organized a march supporting James Meredith, who had been wounded by a sniper on the second day of his planned 220-mile walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. Although Carmichael and King respected one another, the two men engaged in a fierce debate over the future of the civil rights movement, black radicalism, and the potential for integration. When the march reached Greenwood, Mississippi, Carmichael was arrested for the 27th time. At a rally upon his release, he called for “Black Power.” King disapproved of the slogan’s violent connotations, and Carmichael admitted he had used the term during the march in order to force King to take a stand on the issue. Although King initially resisted publicly opposing Carmichael and Black Power, he admitted a break between those still committed to nonviolence and those willing to use any means necessary to achieve freedom.

King and Carmichael did come to agree on public opposition to the Vietnam War. Carmichael encouraged King to speak out against the war while advisors such as Stanley Levison cautioned him that such opposition might have an adverse effect on financial contributions to SCLC. Nearly a month after delivering his “Beyond Vietnam” address at New York’s Riverside Church in April 1967, King preached “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” at Ebenezer Baptist Church, with Carmichael seated in the front row at his invitation. King declared before the congregation: “There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and press that will praise you when you say be nonviolent toward Jim Clark, but will curse you and damn you when you say be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children” (King, 30 April 1967). Carmichael joined the congregation in giving King a standing ovation.

Although Carmichael opposed the decision to expel whites from SNCC, in the later 1960s he joined with black nationalists in stressing racial unity over class unity as a basis for future black struggles. After relinquishing the SNCC chairmanship in 1967, Carmichael made a controversial trip to Cuba, China, North Vietnam, and finally to Guinea. Returning to the United States with the intention of forming a black united front throughout the nation, he accepted an invitation to become prime minister of the militant Oakland-based Black Panther Party. In 1969 he left the Black Panthers after disagreeing with the party’s willingness to work with radical whites.

Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture and moved to Guinea, where he conferred with exiled Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah. He helped form the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party in 1972 and urged African American radicals to work for African liberation and Pan-Africanism. Carmichael died of cancer in Guinea on 15 November 1998 at the age of 57.” (source)

[secretradiobrooklyn]

Get In Moses Edition | 2.13.21

Secret Radio | 2.13.21 | Hear it here.

art by Paige, liner notes mostly by Evan, *means Paige

1. Chantal Goya - “Tu m’as trop menti”

From the movie “Masculin feminin,” a DVD we borrowed from Tim. This is the film where Godard was whispering the lines into a headset of the actor, so they were learning their lines literally as they were saying them. This is the opening song. Not particularly Valentine’s Day, in that it’s about lying too much… but still there’s a dissatisfaction that is undeniably a part of French romance.

2. Human League - “(Keep Feeling) Fascination”

Such a square song! But the keys hook is so immortally beautiful, with its crucial warble. The rest of the song is sweetly and innocently ‘80s. It reminds me of being in art class in high school, fully participating in the aesthetic crimes of the era. 

3. Marijata - “Break Through” - “Afro-Beat Airways”

Analog Africa is just now releasing a repress of this long sold-out collection. I’d listened to it before, but I guess that was before I knew about Marijata (thanks again, Jeffrey!) because it was a shock to discover a track by one of our very favorite Ghanaian discoveries. So far as I knew, Marijata only released one album of four songs — which is fantastic — and then eventually started backing a guy named Pat Thomas. Those records, unfortunately, are nowhere near as vital and fascinating as their own record. So finding this song was a welcome revelation! I should also say that, no surprise, the whole collection is a banger from front to back, and will definitely show up again on the show.

4. Philippe Katerine (avec Gérard Depardieu) - “Blond”

This strange guy is a kind of joker songwriter in French pop, as far as I can tell. This song is all about what one can get away with if one is blond. He’s a really fascinating character, a tiny bit like Beck maybe, in the sense that he seems to have made a successful career of taking unexpected directions. He’s also an actor, working with Claire Denis (!), Jonathan Demme and Gille Lellouche among many others. He was also in “Gainsbourg - A Heroic Life,” which is an excellent movie that we highly recommend. (We had no idea who he was when we saw it at the St. Louis Film Festival.) Also, he appears to be married to Gérard Depardieu’s daughter, which would seem to explain this particular guest star.

- The Texas Room - “Cielito Lindo” 

Several years ago, a producer in St. Louis put together the amazing album known as “The Texas Room,” which brought together immigrants from all over the world who currently lived in St. Louis. That meant Bosnians, Cameroonians, Mexicans, and native-born Americans… including Andy Garces, a fellow Paige went to high school with — His mom was Paige’s voice teacher as a matter of fact — who recorded this strange and excellent version of “Cielito Lindo.” The release party for the album was one of the greatest nights we spent in that or any city, dancing our faces off to all kinds of music. At one point the Bosnians got so excited they took over the room, shouting along and hoisting up their guy in the air. Basil Kincaid did the art for the album, and I think that’s the night we finally met. We have one of his collages on our studio wall right now — right over there!

5. The Modern Lovers - “I’m Straight” *

When we got the current SK van (circa 2015) we were super excited because we could finally bring out other musicians on the road and we could also have folks from other bands that we were out with jump in the van with us for a stretch. That February we were on tour with Jamaican Queens, and our friend Andy Kahn came out with us to play guitar. Not only is Andy a rad musician and great guy to be around, but he was an excellent road DJ. Somehow I made it to 30 without getting into The Modern Lovers (I know, crazy!) Andy has great taste and had a well appointed iPod so he was the official van DJ pretty much right away. He put on this record one day and I just lost it. The thing is, after that I was like “Play ‘Roadrunner’ again!” all the time. When I hear this record I still think of that tour. Andy in the back seat DJing, Ben and Erik jumping in the van to come with to Baltimore, graduating to “truck” in the Holland Tunnel queue, so much snow, host Bentley, “Go cats?”, Aaaaaahhhhh!

6. Frances Carroll & the Coquettes - “Coquette / When I Swing My Stick / Jitterbug Stomp”

I think we learned about this band last year, when Coquettes drummer Viola Smith died at 107 years old (in Costa Mesa, not Silverlake, Paige would like you to know — her bad). The video link below is highly recommended — the whole band swings hard, and the interaction between them and Frances Carroll is well worth the watch. They were considered a curiosity at the time, being an all-female band, and man they could play. Viola Smith in particular had an insanely long career, playing from the 1920s straight through into 2019! She played with Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb, and in the original Broadway production of “Cabaret.” Her particular innovation was having two toms at shoulder height, on either side of her head, which she would roll and ricochet shots off. Very cool style, never copied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDD_NxtKZ4

7. Pierre Sandwidi - “Boy Cuisinier”

Born Bad Records is one of the world’s coolest record labels, with a huge array of vintage discoveries as well as African albums as well as contemporary pop and noise bands. “Boy Cuisinier” is off Pierre Sandwidi’s album with them. It bears some definite relation to Francis Bebey but takes its own turns just as often. Sandwidi hails from Burkina Faso, known as the Upper Volta when he was growing up. We’re just now learning about him and his scene — I confess I didn’t even know Upper Volta was African; I thought it was Slavic — so I wouldn’t be surprised if some more Voltaic music shows up here soon.

8. Evan Sult avec Tracy Brubeck  - “The Cats Won’t Stay In”

Paige’s mom Tracy called while we were in the middle of the show, and they paused to have a conversation about, you know, whatever — the snowstorms, the neighbors, the news. She was on speakerphone so that we could all talk, and eventually I just started taking notes as fast as I could. This is the result. I find it fascinating. That’s Paige singing lead on the Marty Robbins tune.

9.  Kil Monnower Alimunna, Grup Hindustanbul - “Tadap Tadap” 

Years ago I saw the movie “Monsoon Wedding” by the director Mira Nair. It really stuck with me, particularly the gorgeous opening credits in maroon and orange and sky blue. I was trying to tell Paige about that sequence, so just in case we could catch a glimpse of those colors, we watched the trailer. This song is the soundtrack to the trailer. It’s really an amazing track — so Indian, of course, but with definite Western points of contact, like when it goes to the major chords unexpectedly in the post-chorus, which sounds practically American. And the final outro minute or so is full of delayed, reverbed vocals in a psychedelic style, til it reaches the strange and intoxicating sound that he makes with his voice as the song fades into the distance.

- Martial Solal “New York Herald Tribune” - “A bout de souffle” soundtrack 

10. Gillian Hills - “Tut Tut Tut Tut” 

Gillian Hills, probably more famous for “Zou Bisou Bisou.” This track is great, listen for those syrupy slides and harmonies. I just learned that she is English, and the music video for this song is definitely shot in Angleterre. Full of famous red phone booths (now famous little free libraries.) When we were doing this week’s show I asked Evan “Is this song too obvious?” He said no, it wasn’t too obvious. If you know why I’m asking, then you know. So is it? 

11. Jacques Dutronc “La Compapade”

We’ve been into Jacques Dutronc for many years now, because he’s a brilliant French songwriter and composer. But this one track has been a baffler for many years now. It shows up out of nowhere and sounds like… what? What the hell IS that? Is it African? It sounds African, but — is it? Is it just some strange lark on his part? Paige was apprehensive about playing it on the show, even though we both really enjoy it, because we couldn’t tell if it was somehow demeaning to someone. But eventually I argued that we don’t know what the hell most of the singers are saying in the songs we play, or which cultural taboos they’re transgressing, and the same is true in this case. If it is somehow offensive to anyone, I hope it’s clear that wasn’t our intention. But… I don’t know. I don’t think it is. I think it just comes from a cultural heritage and context that is French in a way Americans cannot understand or appreciate. In any case, it’s an amazing performance and recording!

12. K. Frimpong & His Cubanos Fiestas - Me Da A Ɔnnda”

Research into African rock and styles eventually brought us to K. Frimpong and His Cubanos Fiestas, which has turned out to be a satisfying step into the Ghanaian highlife/Cuban scene. I love the keyboard hooks in this one and the way the patterns just roll on and on with each other like a river, in no hurry but pulled forward by their own currents. He was also a visual artist — his art appeared on the cover of last episode’s Nyame Bekyere album. This was also the first time I’ve encountered the character “Ɔ” in the wild. I have zero idea how it is pronounced.

13. They Might Be Giants - “Birdhouse In Your Soul” 

“Not to put too fine a point on it / Say I’m the only bee on your bonnet / Make a little birdhouse in your soul.” I remember when I first realized that was a feeling I was feeling — hoping to build a birdhouse in the soul of another, to be inside one another in a little protected place. The rest of the song is a nerd-rock dream palace I love as much as any other nerd, but the chorus is where I discovered an emotion I hadn’t suspected was there when I first heard and fell for this song and this band in high school (thanks, Jeremy Peterson!). 

Paige adds: This song is blowing my mind. I don’t like writing lyrics, my ratio of melodies and harmonies to lyrics way out of whack. Evan brought this song back into our lives this week when Sleepy Kitty was asked what our favorite love songs are on a real radio show. We’ve been listening to it a bunch since Thursday and damn, these lyrics are good. It’s really reminding me that you can write about ANY.THING. Blue Canary in the freakin’ outlet by the light switch. Looking at the lighthouse picture. It’s a clinic. I learned something, and I can go home. 

On the original topic, I love thinking of this as a love song. If you hear a love song, it’s a love song. It’s a love song.

14. Sleepy Kitty - “Tu veux ou tu veux pas” *

I took two years of French in high school and missed out junior and senior year because of a scheduling lulu that made 3rd and 4th year French conflict with advanced painting which was the primary reason I was taking French in the first place. I’m still not over it. Years later, I’m at Electropolis (in my memory) and I hear this Brigitte Bardot song on Tim’s excellent sound system and I can understand…most?…some…of it! I fell in love with this song and with French again and started stumbling, scrabbling at it again. We started working up this cover. Thank you Suzie Gilb for helping with the pronunciation. We did a 7” of this song and it’s a rare SK track with me playing trombone on it. 

15. The Velvet Underground - “I Love You” *

I don’t really have much to say about this track except that it reminds me of flying to Germany because I got the 5 Disc set with all the extras on it a few days before leaving for a high school foreign exchange program. I was so happy to have those discs to absorb on the long flight, and come to think of it, it really inflected the whole trip.

16. Secret Song - “African Scream Contest”

The genesis of our love for African rock/funk/whatever (if for a moment we don’t count the profoundly influential “Graceland”) is the immortal collection “Legends of Benin,” put out by Analog Africa. As soon as we dug further for our favorites from that collection, we found “African Scream Contest” vols 1 and 2. I was drawn to the second one because it had a killer track by our hero Antoine Dougbé, but eventually spent as much time with the first volume. Both are absolutely fantastic. Part of what I love so much about them is learning how much of an impact James Brown and his band had on African music, which is super apparent throughout these collections and especially this track. The drums and the grunts and the hard stops and the horn blasts — it’s all there. 

One of the finest elements of these records is the hidden track at the end, tucked five or so minutes back from the last song. These are often some of the hottest tracks on the album, well worth the wait, and this mystery song is no exception. Unfortunately, though, that means we don’t know who made this track or what it’s called. Oh well — that only makes it cooler!

- Adrian from Brooklyn

17. The Beatles - “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”

We watched “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week” recently (totally worth a watch), and we were struck all over again by how insane their lives must have been at that time. Yes fame, yes sudden fortune, yes global supremacy, yes yes yes — the thing that I can’t get over is the shrieking, and how it wasn’t just present at their shows, it was EVERYWHERE THEY WENT, AT ALL TIMES ON ALL DAYS, EVERY SECOND THEY WERE OUTSIDE. How completely unsettling that must have been, to be the center of that howl, day after day, year after year. 

18. The Fall - “Sing! Harpy”

Dedicated to Adrian from Brooklyn and all those young women and men losing their minds over the Beatles so completely that all they could do was shriek, even at shows where the crowd’s sound completely obliterated the sound of the band they so desperately loved and came to hear. 

(This is also some of my favorite violin playing in any rock music, right up there with “Boys Keep Swinging” and The Ex’s “State of Shock.” I would LOVE to work with a violinist in this mode.)

19. T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - “Gnon a Gnon Wa”

So intense! That constant chord strike throughout the song is a kind of high-note drone that we find ourselves drawn to. It kind of reminds me of the sound of a casino, where you walk in and all of the machines are chiming the same note, promising to just take your mind away and keep it safe until you need it again.

- Tommy Guerrero - “El Camino Negro” - “Road to Nowhere”

20. Black Dragons de Porto Novo - “Se Djro” What a slinky number! I love how spare the instrumentation is, but how much power is contained in that one guitar part. This is side A of a 7” put out on Albarika Store, the label that T.P. Orchestre called home for many albums. 

21. Helen Nkume and Her Young Timers - “Time” This is (so far) the closest we’ve gotten to reggae on WBFF. I know nothing about the band or the music other than their fantastic name and sound — oh, and the fact that she is known elsewhere as Prophetess Helen Nkume. She appears to be Nigerian, or anyway her record label is. I love the guitar hook on this song, it just sneaks in and steals the show.

22. Anne Sylvestre - “Les Gens Qui Doutent”

23. Parvati Khan - “Jimmi Jimmi Jimmi Aaja Aaja Aaja Re Mere” A lucky find! Someone in one of my Facebook groups posted a video from this album, so I took note and returned later to check it out. This is from an Indian movie called “I’m a Disco Dancer” that looks like a real kooky thrill. The actors appear to have only the vaguest sense of what “disco” might be — or what a guitar might be, for that matter. It kind of looks like someone saw a single photo of a disco night and extrapolated a whole movie from it. Nonetheless, Parvati Khan is entrancing in the song and in the video, and we HAVE to see this movie, with or without subtitles. The smoldering look alone really requires investigation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUdJQSUcK_Y

24. Nancy Sit - “Love Potion #9” * One thing I’ve always known about Evan is that he doesn’t like the song  “Love Potion #9.” When we stumbled across this, I thought it was awesome but I didn’t want to make Evan listen to a song he doesn’t like on Valentine’s Day! Evan says this song has little to do with “Love Potion #9” which makes me wonder, Evan, what’s the part you don’t like about “Love Potion #9”?

Evan adds: I honestly can’t remember what my issue with this song was. I swear, it was like… it was around the time of “Melt With You,” which I also found inexplicably irritating (and still do). I suspect now that there was an inept cover version that first steered me wrong… but luckily there’s a strange Chinese version to steer me right again! Oh life.

- Michel Legrand - “Solange’s Song (Instrumental)” - “The Young Ladies of Rocheforte”

25. The Velvet Underground - “I’ll Be Your Mirror” * This is the song that I said was the best love song of the western world on the real radio. I think it’s so beautiful and so adult. I don’t even know if I would have thought of this as love song a few years ago. When first got into the V.U. I thought it was a pretty song – a neat song, but I didn’t really know what it meant, what it could mean. What’s funny is when I think of this song, I have a Lou Reed version in my head – his voice, the harmonies. When I revisited the Max’s Kansas City live version (which as far as I know is the only one besides other more recent live versions and surely what I’m thinking of?) I realized that the version in my head is essentially that one but cleaned up, remastered, different EQ, and as far as I know entirely imagined.

Evan adds: (Paige has been playing this song recently around the apartment. I don’t even have to tell you how lovely it is.)

*p.s. If you want to hear the piece about musicians talking about favorite love songs on KWMU it’s here: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2021-02-11/listen-love-songs-to-keep-you-warm-on-cold-winter-nights

Super fun getting to talk about this stuff and in such good company!

[gyamfieric]

loose google translation of this article, so pardon the gaps and the apparent loss

“In Fixing Shadows; Julius and I mix Eric Gyamfi's portrait with that of another. Just like in the composite portrait of yesteryear and in today's Insta apps.

BY SARAH VAN BINSBERGEN

ERIC GYAMFI

Title

Fixing Shadows: Julius and I

Year

2019 - now

Where to see

Foam Amsterdam, until 11/3

Material

An installation of over 5000 blueprints and screen prints, sound

Tip

Point in your ears for the (subtle) soundtrack in the installation

Ever wondered what a combination of yourself and Angelina Jolie would look like? Whether your face and that of your new flame would produce a beautiful baby? It is a game whose results occasionally appear in my Instagram feed. Take a picture of yourself and your loved one, or your worst enemy, otherwise take a picture of Trump and one of Putin, throw them in an app and a whole new head comes out.

Fascinating. They thought so about a century and a half ago. The British scientist Francis Galton then devised the so-called composite portrait, for which he combined the negatives of two or more portraits. The result: a kind of archetypal tronies. In addition to quite problematic practices (he claimed to be able to show what the typical face of a criminal looks like on the basis of this), Galton's experiments also yielded the nice insight that the combined portraits were actually always more attractive than the individual headlines.

The same magic is at work in the overwhelming installation Fixing Shadows; Julius and I in the Foam photography museum in Amsterdam. The artwork is part of a small exhibition with two artworks by Ghanaian artist Eric Gyamfi, who won the Foam Paul Huf Award for photographic talent under 35 years of age last year. That exhibition can only be seen for a short time, until 11 March, so this is an artwork of the week in the last chance category.

For Julius and I, Gyamfi made such a combination portrait à la Galton and Insta apps: a fusion of a self-portrait and a (found) portrait of the American minimalist composer Julius Eastman (1940-1990). Well, he didn't make one, he made at least two thousand. They are all unique. Gyamfi used the blueprint technique for printing, whereby the specific circumstances (exposure time, time) ensure that each print comes out slightly differently. They all hang in Foam, spread over two halls, a sea of ​​Prussian blue.

At first glance, it is primarily the investigation of a possessed photographer. What happens to an image if you reproduce it endlessly, copy from copy to copy? For every new print, Gyamfi did not use the original negative of the two merged photos, but the last print of them as a starting point. One blueprint literally becomes the blueprint for the next.

Poetry is somewhere else: in that alienating gesture, the alchemy of two faces. It is reminiscent of the collages of John Stezaker, another artist who loved juggling faces. In his series Marriage he always uses portrait photos of two different (anonymous) film stars, man and woman, glues them together and thus creates a new face. Distorted of course, a little creepy, but for the most part comical.

At Stezaker, crafting is far from seamless. The face where the two images are glued together runs through the face like a cut. Gyamfi seems to want to close that seam. Why? An act of ultimate admiration, perhaps. An attempt to literally disappear into someone else's mind. Or an attempt to approach something impossible: a touch, via image, over distance and time.

Sometimes it is mainly Julius Eastman's face that shines more sharply through the blue haze, its eyes lowered. Then again you see more of Eric Gyamfi himself, who looks intently into the camera. But they are no longer both in this enigmatic disappearing and appearing trick.

Every week V discusses a work of art that now requires attention”

[dear-indies]

your suggestions are always so good! i'd love to know who your favorite black female fcs are between 30 and 50. thank you!

Lillias White (1951) African-American.

Tracey Norman (1951) African-American - trans. 

Charlayne Woodard (1953) African-American.

Velina Hasu Houston (1957) African-American, Pikuni Blackfoot, Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Cuban, Argentinian, Brazilian, Armenian, Greek, German, English.

Angela Bassett (1958) African-American. 

Vanessa Williams (1963) 23% Ghanaian, 17% British Isles, 15% Cameroonian, 12% Finnish, 11% Southern European, 7% Togolese, 6% Beninese, 5% Senegalese, 4% Portuguese.

Viola Davis (1965) African-American.

Sophie Okonedo (1968) Nigerian / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Gina Torres (1969) Afro-Cuban, possibly other. 

Renee Elise Goldsberry (1971) African-American.

Tina Ferreira (1972) Afro Uruguayan, Spanish.

Thandie Newton (1972) Shona Zimbabwean / English.

Sharon Leal (1972) African-American / Filipino.

Gabrielle Union (1972) African-American.

Ledisi / Ledisi Anibade Young (1972)African-American.

Ty Alexander (1974) African-American.

Dominique Jackson (1975) Trinidadian - trans.

Toks Olagundoye (1975) Nigerian / Norwegian.

Christine Adams (1975) Jamaican.

Florence Kasumba (1976) Ugandan.

Danai Gurira (1978) Zimbabwean. 

Rutina Wesley (1979) African-American - hasn’t labelled her sexuality but she’s engaged to a Chef Shonda.

Freema Agyeman (1979) Ghanaian / Iranian.

Jasika Nicole (1980) stated she’s biracial - queer. 

Monique Coleman (1980)African-American.

Angelica Ross (1980/1981) African-American - trans.

Yetide Badaki (1981) Nigerian. 

Susan Kelechi Watson (1981) Jamaican, Nigerian.

Simone Missick (1982) African-American.

Janet Mock (1983) African American /  Native Hawaiian, Portuguese, English.

Lupita Nyong'o (1983) Mexican [Luo Kenyan]

Yvonne Orji (1983) Nigerian.

Lyndie Greenwood (1983) African-Canadian.

Tessa Thompson (1983) Afro-Panamanian and unidentified Mexican and European - bisexual.

Gabourey Sidibe (1983) Senegalese / African-American.

Tiffany Hines (1983) African-American.

Rukiya Bernard (1983) African-American.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (1983) Black South African / English. 

Fuzzy / Faustina Agolley (1984) Ghanaian / Chinese Malaysian - lesbian.

Patina Miller (1984) African-American.

DeWanda Wise (1984) African-American.

Lena Waithe (1984) African-American - lesbian. 

Aja Naomi King (1985) African-American.

Sydelle Noelle (1985) Grenadian.

Jessica Lucas (1985) African-Canadian / European.

Janelle Monáe (1985) African-American - pansexual.

Mumbi Maina (1985) Kenyan. 

Cynthia Addai-Robinson (1985) Ghanaian / English. 

Sonequa Martin-Green (1985) African-American.

Issa Rae (1985)  Senegalese / African-American. 

Halima Abubakar (1985) Yoruba Nigerian - practicing Muslim.

Nicole Beharie (1985) Nigerian / Jamaican. 

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) African-American.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell (1986) African-American, Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish  / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Antonia Thomas (1986) Jamaican / English. 

Wunmi Mosaku (1986) Nigerian. 

Juliet Ibrahim (1986) Ghanaian, Liberian, Lebanese.

Tarisai Vushe (1987) Zimbabwean.

Pearl Mackie (1987)West Indian / English. 

Teyonah Parris (1987) African-American.

Leah Vernon (1987) African-American - practising Muslim.

Deborah Ayorinde (1987) Nigerian. 

Cleopatra Coleman (1987) Jamaican, White. 

Amiyah Scott (1988) African-American - trans. 

Shanna Malcolm (?) Jamaican. 

Cherinda Kincherlow (?) African-American.

Margaret Akech (?) 

There are also loads of more amazing black women on @tasksweekly​‘s masterlists:

#021: Black Faceclaims 

#078: Zimbabwe

#079: Somalia

#080: Kenya

#081: Ghana

#100: Nigeria 

-C

[simulacrahelps]

TWIN MASTERLIST

In this masterlist you’ll find Twins Like or reblog if you thought it was useful 

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Male Twins

Ethan & Grayson Dolan(18)White unspecified

Cole & Dylan Sprouse(25) English, Scottish, Danish, & German

Tom & Bill Kaulitz(28)German

Munro & Thomas Chambers(28) Italian, German, British & French

John & Edward Grimes(26)Irish

Max & Charlie Carver (30)White unspecified

Marcus and Lucas Dobre(19)Iranian & Romanian

Ivan and Emilio Martinez(19) Spanish

Danny & Michael Phillippou(25) Greek cypriot

Laurent and Larry Nicolas Bourgeois(29)French & Guadalopean

Keith & Kevin Hodge(42)Ivorian, Ghanaian, Scandanavian, Iberian, British, Camaroonian, Nigerian, Bantu, Tongolese & Congolese

Finn & Jack Harries(25)White unspecified

Reed & Quin Baron(10)?

Shawn & Taylor Carpenter(22)?

 Aidan & Andrew Gonzales(12)Spanish

Andrew & Jakob Miller(?) ?

Anton & Preston LeBlanc(?) ?

Aidan & Liam O’Donnell(?)?

Blake & Brennan Johnson(?) ?

Bodhi & Kai Schulz(?)German & British

Bradley & Spencer Pickren(15)?

Brent & Shane Kinsman(20)white unspecified

Casey & Dylan Boersma(23)?

Connor & Garret Sullivan(17)?

Connor & Owen Fielding(12)

Daniel & Joshua Shalikar(29)Iranian ?

Declan & Rory McTigue(14)?

Dylan & Jordan Cline(15)?

Edward & James Nigbor(?)?

Elijah & Isaiah Ford (?)African-American

Evan & Luke Kruntchev(9)?

Frank & Morgan Gingerich(16)?

Gavin & Ethan Kent(12)?

Hlynur & Marinó Sigurðsson(30)Icelandian

Houston & Kanan Hooker(25)?

Jacob & Zachary Handy(24)?

Jason & Kristopher Simmons(15)?

Joseph & Matthew Levinson(14)?

Joseph & Raymond Cartigiano(14)?

Max & Sam Christy(18)?

Preston & Trevor Shores(?)?

Ronald & Frank De Boer(48)Dutch

Lars & Sven Bender(29)German

Halil & Hamit Altintop(35)Turkish & German

Shota & Archil Arveladze(45)Georgian

Jonathan & Kevin Borlée(30)Belgium

Jasper & Marius Gottlieb(29)Dutch

Benji & Joel Madden(39)English, German, Scottish & Irish

Niek & Brent Schoemaker(14)Dutch

 Bryan And Denny Kirkwood(43)White unspecified

Andrew and Steven Cavarno(26)?

Aaron & Griffin Kunitz(13)Russian Jewish

Nicholas Brendon & Kelly Donovan(47)White Unspecified

Jon & Dan Heder(40)Swedish

Jim & John Chapman(30)White unspecified

Dylan & Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit(27)?

Rami & Sami Malek(37)Coptic, Egyptian & Greek

James & Oliver Phelps(32)White unspecified)

Shawn & Aaron Ashmore(38)English

Aaron & Austin Rhodes(22)?

Charlie & Craig Reid (56)Scottish

Duke & Scott Huisman(12)Dutch

Koen en Jos van der Donk(30)Dutch

Tim & Tom Coronel(46)Dutch

Joshua & Jonathan Fatu(32)Samoan

Female twins

Jade & Nikita Ramsey (30)White unspecified

Ailish & Julia O’Connor(10)?

Ali & Susanne Hartman(6)?

Amanda & Caitlin Fein(25)

Amanda & Rachel Pace(17)white unspecified

Anais & Mirabelle Lee(11)African-American

Ashlyn & Kayley Messick(24)?

Ava & Grace Greeson(9/10)?

Ava & Olivia White(13)?

Baylie & Rylie Cregut(8)?

Bebe & Maggie Vose(9)?

Bianca & Chiara D'Ambrosio(13)White unspecified

Brianna & Brittany McConnell(24)?

Cali & Noelle Sheldon(16)?

Campbell & Carolyn Rose(13)?

Cara & Madelyn Gosselin(17) German, English, Scottis, Korean,  French-Canadian, Irish, Welsh & Portuguese

Dakoda & Danica Hobbs(12)?

Elaine & Melanie Silver(30)?

Elizabeth & Mariam Tovey(?)?

Ella & Jaden Hiller(9/10)?

Elle & Ithaca Kremer(11)?

Faith & Hope Shin(24)?

Gianna & Jessie Salvatierra(10)?

Isabel & Samantha Kahle (8)?

Jacqueline & Rebecca Levine(11)?

Jessica & Rachael Slomovitz(11)?

Josie & Lucy Gallina(12)?

Kaitlyn & Kristen Hooper(25)?

Karleigh & McKenna Larson(9)?

Kathryn & Megan Prescott(27)White unspecified

Kayla & Rylie Colbert(7/8)?

Keana & Maia Bastidas(20)?

Keaton & Kylie Tyndall(26)?

Madison & Marissa Poer(17)?

Nadia & Talia Hartounian(10)?

Rebecca & Vanessa Rogers(16)?

Rose & Ruby Romero(9)?

Savanna & Sienna Dezio(11)?

Gabi & Niki Demartino(23)Cuban & Italian

Ava and Alexis McClure(5)Half Nigerian

Teagan Rybka and Sam Rybka(23)?

Lisa & Lena Mantler(16)German

Brittany and Briana Murillo(23)?

Elisha & Renee Herbert(19)?

Madeleine and Samantha Caleon(22)?

Mikahl and Payton Caci(19)?

Aitana and Paula Etxeberria(21)Spanish

Linda and Terry Jamison(53)White unspecified

Camille and Kennerly Kitt(?)Norwegian, Finnish & swedish

Mia & Isabella Drotini(5)?

 Tegan & Sara Quin(37)French-Canadian & Scottish

Amy & Shelley Vol(22) Dutch

Liliana & Alicia De Vries(30)Colombian & Dutch

Deidre & Andrea Hall(70)?

Tia & Tamara Mowry(40)African-American &Bahamian

Rebecca & Camilla Russo(24)Italian

Brittany & Cynthia Daniel(42)White unspecified

Jill & Jacqueline Hennessy(49) Irish, French, Swedish, Italian, Ukrainian, Austrian &  Romani

Nikki & Brie Bella(34) Mexican, Italian, English, Irish & Scottish

 Shannon & Shauna Baker (29) Stellat’en Carrier Dene (First Nations) & African-American

Ashley & Mary Kate Olsen (32) Norwegian, English, German, Italian & French

Choa & Heo Minseon(28)Korean

Vanessa & Veronica Merrell(22) Mexican, Portuguese, Spanish, German & Irish

Brooklyn & Bailey McKnight(18)?

Faye & Demi Burgers(21)Dutch

Jessica & Lisa Origliasso(33)Italian & Sicilian

Gabriela and Monica Irimia(35)Romanian

 Female & Male twins

Kieran & Meghan Hayes(19)?

Spencer & Peyton List(20) German, English, Scottish, Danish, Welsh &  French

Kiefer & Rachel Sutherland(51) Scottish, English, Irish &  German

Scarlett & Hunter Johansson(33)Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish & Swedish

 People who played Twins

Dove Cameron(Liv & Maddie)(22)Austrian, German, French, English & Scottish

Alexandra Chando(The lying)(32)Slovak, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian & Rusyn

Armie Hammer(The Social Network)(31)Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Russian, Polish, Danish, Swiss-German, Greek, Cherokee Native American

Sam Underwood(The Following)(31)White Uspecified

Anthony Starr(Outrageous Fortune)(42)?

Leonardo DiCaprio(The Man In The Iron Mask)(43)German, Italian & Russian

Nicolas Cage(Adaptation)(54)Italian, Polish, German & British Isles (English, Scottish)

Michael Keaton(Multiplicity)(66)German, English, Scottish & Scots-Irish/Northern Irish

Bruce Campbell(Army Of Darkness)(60)Scottish & English

Eddie Murphy(Bowfinger)(57)African-American

Lindsay Lohan( The Parent Trap)(32)German, Italian, Irish & Sicilian

Christian Bale(The Prestige)(44)English, Channel Islander [Guernsey] &German

James Franco(The Deuce)(40)Portuguese, Madeiran, Swedish & Ashkenazi Jewish

Marion Cotillard(Les Jolie Choses)(42)Breton & French

Jeane Claude Van Damme(Double Impact)(57)Belgian & Jewish

Bette Midler(Big Business)(72)Ashkenazi Jewish

Freddie Highmore(The Spiderwick Chronicles)(26)English & Scottish

Adam Sandler(Jack & Jill)(51)Ashkenzi Jewish

Jason Sudekis(Eastbound & Down)(42) Irish, Lithuanian & German

Jennette McCurdy(Icarly)(26) Irish, French, French-Canadian, Swedish/Finland-Swedish, Italian, English, Dutch, Frisian, Swiss-German, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Mexican & Polish

Tom Hardy (Legend)(40)English & Irish

Ed Norton(Leaves of Grass)(48) English, German, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) & Swiss-German

Trinitee Stokes(K.C. Undercover)(one episode)(12)African-American

Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries (Not actually twins but petrovas)(29)

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11-Year-Old Nicholas Buamah Premieres New TV Show ‘Nick’s House’

11-Year-Old Nicholas Buamah Premieres New TV Show ‘Nick’s House’

Nicholas Buamah, an American-based Ghanaian best-selling author, is making history with the release of his newly created comedy-based sitcom, dubbed ‘Nick’s House.’ The 11-year-old best-selling author, philanthropist, and now actor hosted an exclusive red carpet premiere this past Thursday, July 21, 2022, in front of a sold-out audience. Nick’s House Red Carpet Movie Premiere was hosted by…