📺Watch: MARVIN GAYE • What's Going On + Save the Children • LIVE in Amsterdam • 1976

The one and only! Outstanding performance ~ his voice is incredibly powerful here...

📺WATCH: One way white people can make black people cry... and God is good with it...

And the fact that God is mentioned so many times here... is a not just a testament to the faith of the receiver... but also the giver not staying any longer than is necessary, so as not to steal any excess praise from the One who giveth to us all... God IS good...

📺Watch: FELA KUTI • Water No Get Enemy • 1975

☝️The above video is one of the best I've seen on YouTube ~ every so often, for the better part of the past decade since I found it, I like to watch it again in order to remind myself that, despite all the injustice that remains to be corrected where I live, I am nevertheless extremely grateful that I do not have to struggle so desperately to obtain the most basic essentials to support life... and I need to empathise, pray and help in whatever manner I can -- those who do on an ongoing regular basis...

Engineer Moses West’s Innovative Machine Creates Safe, Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air

Tanasia Kenney | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

No, it’s not magic. It’s the system behind Moses West’s innovative machine that’s making it so communities in need have access to safe drinking water.

What’s more, folks are already pretty familiar with the science behind it all.

“We’ve always known there were three sources of water: a liquid, a solid and a gas,” West, a retired Army captain and engineer, told Atlanta Black Star in a recent interview. “Our atmosphere is [the] most abundant source of water we have. And now we have this technology in our hands … where we can tap into this water. To me, we’re in no-brainer territory.”

HOWARD LEMON SINGERS • Together • 1977

Not only one of my favorite gospel songs ever... but just one of my favorite songs ever... bless erry'body on today ~ hope y'all might understand and come to believe it too... 

PRINCE • I Feel For You (Acoustic Demo) • 1979

The special, stripped-down demo recording captures a 20-year-old Prince in a raw, intimate moment, and begins with the sound of the artist pressing the record button on a cassette tape recorder and picking up an acoustic guitar.

THE JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET • Wise One • 1964

Indeed...

📺WATCH: Surveillance video captures the dramatic moment a high school coach disarmed a student with a gun

SOPHIE LEWIS | CBS NEWS

Earlier this year, a high school coach in Oregon was celebrated as a hero for stopping an armed student before he could hurt anyone. Now, new surveillance footage reveals the coach brought the student into an embrace after disarming him.

Who was Uncle Tom? Another forgotten black hero...

MILDRED CLARK and the MELODY AIRES • I Can't Do Enough • 1979

RACHELLE FERRELL • Peace On Earth • 1992

RANDY WESTON and PHAROAH SANDERS • Blue Moses • 1991

LARRY YOUNG • The Cradle • 1969

D.J. ROGERS • Don't You Want To Ride • 1973

THE CLARK SISTERS • Jesus Unhooked The Chains (He Gave Me Nothing To Lose) • 1979

MORE RELATION • The Light • 1979

Another brilliant gem...

JIMMY CLIFF • 7 X 7 (Seven Times To Rise Seven Times To Fall) • 1977

A very mystical song... one of my favorites...

BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS • Babylon System • Demo, Jamaican and International Versions • 1979

🔥CLASSIC CHUNE! Interesting to see how it progressed from the demo version to the final one... some great photography in the videos too... the last one in particular is highly appropriate for the song and the previous post I made on this website... One Love children... keep burning down Babylon... I pray JAH blesseth thee itinually...🔥

Simone Biles is the greatest female gymnast ever... DESPITE even the 'unfair' rules which penalize her for 'being in a league of her own'

With another world title, Biles is now in a class of her own.

Jane Coaston | VOX 

With (another) world-title win to her name Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany, Simone Biles is now the winningest female gymnast at the World Championship level in history. If she wins another medal at the World Championships — individual events will take place this weekend — she will tie the record for the most world-title medals won by anyone, male or female.

JOHN COLTRANE • Afro Blue • LIVE in Stockholm • 1963

A beautiful, hard-swinging live version of this classic tune...

Black Police Officer Says He Was Forced to Resign, Told He Was a 'Disgrace' to Uniform After Wearing an AFRO Wig

Anne Branigin | THE ROOT

A Georgia police officer is calling out Dekalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann after being forced to resign just three days before his retirement. The offense? Wearing an Afro-wig while he was posted outside a courthouse, directing traffic.

Antonio Perryman told WSB-TV he says he was “robbed” of completing 20 years of service with the force by his superiors, who reprimanded him within hours of completing his shift.

GLADYS McFADDEN and THE LOVING SISTERS • Never Gonna Turn Around • 1977

TESSIE HILL and RUTH BUSBEE • Never Let A Day Go By • 1975-1981

WAYNE SHORTER • Infant Eyes • 1964

One of his finest compositions... with some of the finest of the chief musicians...

BLUE NOTE and How one designer created the “look” of jazz

Blue Note Records created the visual identity of modern jazz

Estelle Caswell | VOX

What does modern jazz look like? For a lot of music fans, the visual identity of jazz has become synonymous with a single record label that defined the sound and feeling of the musical style during its transformation from the complicated melodies of bebop to the soulful hooks of hard bop during the 1950s and ’60s. That record label is Blue Note, and their album covers are so iconic, they’ve been the point of inspiration for graphic designers and musicians for the past 60 years.

THE VOICES of EAST HARLEM • Giving Love • 1973

This song could come on my shuffler every day and I would never skip it ~ ❤ To all!...