Saturday, December 19, 2009

A Music Break with Roland Kirk


Rahsaan Roland Kirk Volunteered Slavery


Rahsaan Roland Kirk "Misty & I Want Talk" Live Montreux 1972

Background information
Birth name Ronald Theodore Kirk
Born 7 August 1935
Died 5 December 1977 (aged 42)
Genres jazz (hard bop)
Occupations musician, composer, arranger, bandleader
Instruments tenor saxophone, clarinet, stritch, manzello, flute, whistles
Labels King, Chess, Prestige, Mercury, Limelight, Verve, Atlantic, Warner Brothers
Website http://www.alfanet.hu/kirk/index2.html
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1935[1] – December 5, 1977) was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality, during which virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the ability to play several instruments simultaneously.


Friday, December 18, 2009

Professor James Small on Post Slavery Trauma Syndrome


Professor James Small was born in 1945, on Arcadia plantation, located on the banks of the Waccamaw River. This Lowland rice plantation is located where the Waccamaw, Peedee, and Black Rivers converge to meet the Atlantic Ocean, on the shores of historic Georgetown, South Carolina. Prof. Small was born to a family that traces their descent from enslaved Africans, to the Yoruba, Akan, and Ewe people of West Africa. Prof. Small's heritage also stems from the Native American ancestors that inhabited these South Carolinian shores. Both his maternal great-grandmother and his paternal great-grandmother were members of the Chicora Nation, and made their home along the mighty Waccamaw River.


Prof. Small graduated from the all Black Howard High School in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1964. He then served in the U.S. Navy for two years during the Vietnam era. Upon his release from military service, Prof. Small moved to New York City where he joined the organization of Afro-American Unity founded by the legendary Malcolm X. In 1967, Prof. Small became Imam (minister) of the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, also founded by Malcolm X. In 1975 Prof. Small traveled to the Holy City of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to make his holy pilgrimage, the Hajjah. For eleven years Prof. Small served as principal bodyguard to the late Ella L. Collins, the sister of Malcolm X, the then President of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (O.A.A.U.)


Between the years of 1966 and 1980, Prof. Small held membership in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.), the N.A.A.C.P, Uhuru fighters and O.A.A.U. During this period Prof. Small had the opportunity to interact with such historical giants as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Kwame Ture, H. Rap Brown of S.N.C.C, Eldridge Cleaver, Zaid Shakur, and Lumumba Shakur of the Black Panther Party (B.P.P.) in which he served as a liaison between the B.P.P. and the O.A.A.U. Prof. Small has been a member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization (A.S.C.A.C.) for 14 years. He served as President of A.S.C.A.C. Eastern Region for two years, where he worked and studied with Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Yosef A. A. Ben Jochannan, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Amos Wilson and Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, just to name a few.

POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 1 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 2 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 3 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 4 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 5 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 6 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 7 JAMES SMALLS




POST SLAVERY TRAUMA SYNDROME PT 8 JAMES SMALLS

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Did Benazir Bhutto actually say Osama Bin Laden had been murdered?


Well it sure sounded like that to me. Does anyone have an explanation to clarify this statement was it a slip of the tongue or is it just aa slip up?

It's definitely one those things that make you wanna go hmmmmmm.


Sunday, December 13, 2009

Mckinney and Kucinich at END US WARS RALLY in Washington DC.

The Peace Rally in DC on December 12, 2009 has not gotten much exposure.
I found something in The Washington Post. Otherwise there really isn't a lot of reportage on this event, sad. I did find something at 911blogger.com. Some commentary and some youtube clips. There are 2 clips here of Mckinney and Kucinich.


Ex-Rep. McKinney: "President Obama, Stop Bankrupting our Nation




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Rep. Kucinich: BILLIONS FOR BAILOUTS BONUSES AND BOMBS


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More video clips here.

End US Wars Slide Show