I’d have other critiques about a Black man telling jokes, standing In front of Saudis who have African slaves right now TODAY. A murdered journalist is only one way of looking at that situation. #DaveChappelle

I’d have other critiques about a Black man telling jokes, standing In front of Saudis who have African slaves right now TODAY. A murdered journalist is only one way of looking at that situation. #DaveChappelle

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

This earlier version of the Tony Williams tune “Citadel” showcased Williams and Marsalis. “Renaissance” remains one of my favorite Brandford Marsalis albums. #Jazz #vinyl

You are not free until you can turn down somebody's money. You are materially, emotionally or psychologically owned by somebody or some thing.

I visited the Fraenkel Gallery yesterday and was pleasantly invited to preview some of Christian Marclay’s newest works for an upcoming (January 2026) exhibition. @fraenkelgallery.bsky.social

I visited the Fraenkel Gallery yesterday and was pleasantly invited to preview some of Christian Marclay’s newest works for an upcoming (January 2026) exhibition. @fraenkelgallery.bsky.social

How Black Music Took Over the World • Melvin Gibbs 📕 April 14 • Basic Books www.basicbooks.com/titles/melvi...

Shreya Parikh examines how popular narratives of Tunisia’s “glorious past,” particularly in La Goulette, celebrate colonial-era coexistence by centering white or white-passing European communities while erasing indigenous, Amazigh, and Black presences. buff.ly/iy6kJZD

All Colored Cast (Part III), 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5038

On this day in 1897, a mob of 400 white men lynched a Black man named Tom Waller in Lawrence County, Mississippi. They had a large picnic while preparing to hang him.

You are not free until you can turn down somebody's money. You are materially, emotionally or psychologically owned by somebody or some thing.

Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.

Anthony “Tony” Tillmon Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997). 1986 Bluenote release titled “Civilization”. #Vinyl #Jazz Record.

The book “Black Artists in #Oakland” can be purchased from the publisher. (Link below). There are #jazz #musicians, #painters and #writers represented with rare photos seen for the first time in print and some shot exclusively for the book.

December 7th was the centennial of #Oakland dance legend Ms Ruth Beckford’s birth. She was a star dancer with Katherine Dunham and also organized the first free breakfast program for the Black Panther Party. Ms Beckford graced the cover of this book that I co-authored in 2007. #book #art #dance

Philistines, 1982 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5097

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December 7th was the centennial of #Oakland dance legend Ms Ruth Beckford’s birth. She was a star dancer with Katherine Dunham and also organized the first free breakfast program for the Black Panther Party. Ms Beckford graced the cover of this book that I co-authored in 2007. #book #art #dance

Released this day, 1961: 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙈𝙮 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚 (Columbia CL 1656 [mono], CS 8456 [stereo]). The LP brings together music from three sessions on March 7, 20, and 21, 1961. The album was produced by Teo Macero and engineered by Fred Plaut and Frank Laico. #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

Nothing beats the jazzy boom nap era. #hiphop #jazz samples. Guru inherited a collection of jazz vinyl from his father Harry Justin Elam sr. , a Boston lawyer and judge. Premier and Guru’s musical sophistication is married to the legacy of jazz music.

#Drawing #VisualCulture

“A poet like Langston Hughes and can't lose when I cruise Out on the expressway Leavin the Bodega I say "suave”” — Guru of Gangstarr describing himself on the single "DWYCK". #hiphop #poetry #LangstonHughes (1992)

Conscious #hiphop #rap #art #culture

Join Jared Ball on @imixwhatilike.bsky.social Live.

Listening to BLAX Radio player.live365.com/a43211?l=

Dr. Tommy J. Curry on the Forced Feminization of the Black Male. From Episode 5 of the #BlackMaleStudiesSessions, sponsored by the African American Men’s Historical Society. Click the link below to hear the full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPl...

Black Men and Boys occupy a specific role in the “Cosmology of Demons” devised by American White Supremacy. From Episode 5 of the #BlackMaleStudiesSessions. Click the link below to hear the full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPl...

Fascinating costume and set designs for the 1976 first full performances of Scott Joplin’s Opera titled “Treemonisha”. #jazz #opera #vinylrecord

I first became aware of him when I was in Art school (‘79 - ‘82). Fascinating and intriguing how magnetic his work is all these years later. #JeanMichelBasquiat

More Albert Ayler Quartet with Don Cherry, Gary Peacock & Sunny Murray. Recorded November 9, 1964 in Hilversum, Netherlands. #NowPlaying Albert Ayler Quartet - The Hilversum Session (Our Swimmer, Germany 2022/original 1980).

#nowplaying Mental Cruelty. 1960, Decca, mono. George Gruntz feat. Kenny Clarke & Barney Wilen. Possibly one of the rarest jazz soundtrack ever. Only 100 copies before the album was withdrawn due to legal issues. #vinyl #vinyladdict #jazz #jazzsky #soundtrack #10inchesrecords

An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Not all Ifa practitioners, Iyanifas and Babalawo's are apolitical. In all areas of culture production (in the Cabral sense)we should use our knowledge and skills as a revolutionary tool used to decolonize all areas of our lived experience. #PanAfricanism

Masterful piano performance by the late Hampton Hawes. The second cut on the first side titled “South Hampton” is actually Wayne Shorter’s composition titled “Footprints”. (1975) #VinylRecord #Jazz #piano

CAIR, CAIR-Georgia Extend Condolences After Imam Jamil Al-Amin Passes Away in Prison for Crime He Did Not Commit #HRap#Brown

The legendary #CecilTaylor in rehearsal, #Poetry and deep conversation. @obsofdeviance.bsky.social

i fact-checked this beautiful piece about South Africa's exiled jazz musicians: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lik...

Rest In Power bsky.app/profile/angu...

Unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother's attic, the copy netted $9.12 million this month at a Texas auction house which says it is the most expensive comic book ever sold. n.pr/3M5Rxfj

Scott Joplin – Treemonisha (Original Cast Recording) #vinylrecord (1976) #Jazz #Opera @melanatedtenor.bsky.social

The legendary #CecilTaylor in rehearsal, #Poetry and deep conversation. @obsofdeviance.bsky.social

Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power

CAIR, CAIR-Georgia Extend Condolences After Imam Jamil Al-Amin Passes Away in Prison for Crime He Did Not Commit #HRap#Brown