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YouTube video by Eddie Palmieri Eddie Palmieri - Revolt La Libertad Logico (Official Audio)

RIP the unstoppable force that was Eddie Palmieri. An academy of music, a combustion engine. Take five minutes out of your human experience to sit with this performance, and consider how many elements are in thrilling convergence.

YouTube video by Mi Zalsa Eddie Palmieri - Nada De Ti

For Eddie Palmieri, a true master and innovator, as great as great can be, decade after decade. R.I.P. The three recordings that I return to most often are "Live at Sing Sing" (1972), "The Sun of Latin Music" (1974), and "Unfinished Masterpiece" (1975). www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQmW...

Sigh. Too much sad news these days. Rest well, maestro.

feat. Sir Charles Thompson, by Don Byas Quartet 10 track album

Writing about Gordon Parks' transformative years in Paris, where he was part of a small but significant African American community of writers, artists, & musicians. This has reintroduced me to sax player Don Byas, another temporary Parisian. Beautiful. storyvillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/feat-s...

Kiese Laymon’s Written Creations Remain ‘Rooted in Jackson’ Jackson-native writer Kiese Laymon considers his childhood in Jackson and Mississippi’s cultural traditions to be the foundation of his creative works.

“Everything I write is rooted in Jackson,” Kiese Laymon said. “I spent my childhood there and have always loved it. My life here, and in Mississippi as a whole, is what matters the most to me."

I have a lot of respect for anyone who can admit they were wrong—especially when they've been dug in for a while on the wrong side.

We need way more of those people to change their minds and confront the fact that this is a genocide and that it must be stopped.

After Trump's "peace deal"...

The quoted post is part of a thread, which you should read. bsky.app/profile/well...

80 years ago today, we -- Americans -- did this.

JRR Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, written 9 August 1945

Thanks!

TYVM.

Is this from a series?

This is so frustrating because he is from South Bend!!!! And now lives in Michigan. He knows what kinds of communities are here!!!!! He knows what this means.

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No words. No emojis. Just a sob or two.

Charlottesville could have one of the best. Instead we have two B- markets, neither of which has a four-season location. (Unlike, say, Lynchburg, our comparable neighbor to the south.)

Walking did not merely decline. It was deterred.

Cleveland, March 22, 1982: After unsuccessful requests for a traffic light and a fourth injury to a child crossing the street, residents organized a protest. ...

An important read about ICE

I picked up the habit of calling an authoritarian white supremacist government "the regime" from anti-apartheid activists in South Africa when I lived in that country in the '80s. Anti-racist Americans should adopt the practice.

US demands $15,000 deposit for visa applicants from Malawi and Zambia The 12-month pilot programme targeting Malawi and Zambia aims to curb visa overstays, the US says.

Every day another blatantly racist policy from the regime. This one singles out two African countries — Malawi & Zambia. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Green building
Gibbon, MN

Or to put it a different way, rich Americans yearn for the feudalism we were supposed to have left behind

You may think 1925 was a long time ago. It's not. Both of my parents were alive in 1925.

Back when people spoke plainly & words meant something. (Read the short thread for context.)

Me, too.

People still want to act as though white supremacy isn't at the heart of the Trump regime. Those people include my two Democratic senators & the editors & journalists at most major US media outlets.