Drums in the Global Village

Man, the BBC World Service stuff that NPR airs in the middle of the morning…..! And it’s always fascinating to hear the Black Power Movement discussed in news/history programs. Very rare in American media, which happily and deliberately hides the Black Power Movement within the much more accepted Civil Rights Movement.

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  …..to thank God. And Rihanna’s parents. And Esquire for doing this. 

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……my friend Ericka Blount-Danois, who produced this great article on one of my all-time favorite television shows!

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……no (male) jury would convict you. CLEARLY entrapment.

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Wow! I don’t have a comment on this yet. I’ll have to think about it.

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Hail. Hurricane! Earthquake. Are these the last days? With Glenn Beck in Israel, maybe! LOL!

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For your songwriting ability and for showing what it looked like to be in love. Here’s something from their very early days.

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What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrtong’s Later Years. Ricky Riccardi. Pantheon. 306 pp. $28.95. He told Benny Goodman where to stick some contracts, and referred to him in 12-letter language. He told his white manager—the one who most music historians believe controlled him—that if he didn’t set up with the police and everybody [...]

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Check this out, then support it—with your duckets, if you can. Thank you!

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THANKS to The Final Call for this! And THANKS to Malik for forwarding me this!

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