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Show description for Sunday 1/15/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. by June Jordan
honey people murder mercy U.S.A.
the milkland turn to monsters teach
to kill to violate pull down destroy
the weakly freedom growing fruit
from being born
America
tomorrow yesterday rip rape
exacerbate despoil disfigure
crazy running threat the
deadly thrall
appall belief dispel
the wildlife burn the breast
the onward tongue
the outward hand
deform the normal rainy
riot sunshine shelter wreck
of darkness derogate
delimit blank
explode deprive
assassinate and batten up
like bullets fatten up
the raving greed
reactivate a springtime
terrorizing
death by men by more
than you or I can
STOP
II
They sleep who know a regulated place
or pulse or tide or changing sky
according to some universal
stage direction obvious
like shorewashed shells
we share an afternoon of mourning
in between no next predictable
except for wild reversal hearse rehearsal
bleach the blacklong lunging
ritual of fright insanity and more
deplorable abortion
more and
more
New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Interviews with authors of contemporary Afroamerican literature.
Genre
Classical, Jazz, Blues, Experimental, Poetry & Literature
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| Jimmy Heath | Gingerbread Boy | On The Trail | Riverside | ||
| Wynton Kelly | Keep It Movin' | Kelly Blue | Riverside | ||
| June Jordan (read by Justin Desamngles) | In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. | Things I Do In The Dark | Random House | ||
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| Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln | Garvey's Ghost | Percussion Bittersweet | Impulse | ||
| Cecil Taylor | Tales (8 Whisps) | Unit Structures | Blue Note | ||
| Roland Kirk Quartet | From Bechet, Byas, And Fats | Rip, Rig & Panic | Limelight | ||
| Roland Kirk Quartet | Mystical Dream | Rip, Rig & Panic | Limelight | ||
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| Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln | Freedom Day | Freedom Now Suite | Candid | ||
| Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln | Prayer/Prostest/Peace | Freedom Now Suite | Candid | ||
| John Tchicai | Mothers | Timo's Message | Black Saint | ||
| John Tchicai & Pierre Dorge | Go Down Moses | Ball At Louisiana | Steeple Chase | ||
| Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan | Go Down Moses | Goin' Home | Steeple Chase | ||
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| Hampton Hawes | The More I See You | The Green Leaves Of Summer | Contemporary | ||
| Hank Mobely | The More I See You | Roll Call | Blue Note | ||
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| Nina Simone | Why? ( The King Of Love Is Dead) | 'Nuff Said | RCA | ||
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| Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Raped Voices | Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata | Atlantic | ||
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| Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Prelude Back Home | Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata | Atlantic | ||
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