BOBBY HUTCHERSON • Visions • 1979

I love playing this song on an instrument ~  absolutely gorgeous chord changes...

🕊THE SUPREME JUBILEES • We'll Understand • 1979 • A Tribute To KOBE and GIANNA BRYANT

🕊R.I.P. and thank you for all the unforgettable memories and inspiration...🕊

Read more & get updates about the tragic passing of Kobe & Gianna Bryant here.

The INSTITUTIONAL RADIO CHOIR of BROOKLYN N.Y. • It's Mighty Nice (To Be A Witness For The Lord) • 1977

More Than Half of Homeless Families Are Black, Government Report Says

Anne Branigin | THE ROOT

More than half a million Americans experienced homelessness in 2019—a number that has slowly ticked upward in recent years. Of the families that make up that number, the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress finds that 52 percent are black.

🔥BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS • Belly Full 🇯🇲 JAMAICAN Version • 1974🔥

More relevant and rocking than ever... (vintage scratchy vinyl and all!)

BLUELINING B.S. • Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty And The REAL Reason Major U.S. Cities Have An Affordable Housing Crisis

Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold

Derek Thompson | THE ATLANTIC

In Manhattan, the homeless shelters are full, and the luxury skyscrapers are vacant.

Such is the tale of two cities within America’s largest metro. Even as 80,000 people sleep in New York City’s shelters or on its streets, Manhattan residents have watched skinny condominium skyscrapers rise across the island. These colossal stalagmites initially transformed not only the city’s skyline but also the real-estate market for new homes. From 2011 to 2019, the average price of a newly listed condo in New York soared from $1.15 million to $3.77 million.

But the bust is upon us.

High Credit Scores Still Not Enough for Black Businesses to Secure Loans, Federal Reserve Data Shows

Tanasia Kenney | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

Black business owners are denied loans more than any other group, despite having good credit and steady profits, U.S. Federal Reserve data shows.

ISRAEL VIBRATION • Lift Up Your Conscience • 1978

Each and every day!

Texas School District Tells Black Teen to Choose Between His Locs or Graduation Ceremony

Ashleigh Atwell | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

A Texas teenager will be barred from his high school graduation if he doesn’t cut his locs.

Deandre Arnold, an 18-year-old in the Houston suburb of Mont Belvieu, has been growing his locs since he was in the seventh grade, but he didn’t experience any issues until this year. The teen and his family previously had an agreement with the Barbers Hill independent school district where Deandre attended for 10 years, reports Yahoo Lifestyle.

The agreement allowed for an exemption because of its spiritual and cultural significance. 

Despite the agreement, an amendment was made, reportedly without the family’s knowledge.

NEW JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR • Taste And See • 1981

The Lord, He's been real good to me!

MARVIN GAYE • Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) • [RARE Extended Version] • 1971

🌍 LEGENDARY -- Despite his intense personal struggles, this man never stopped serving the truth to inspire us to think and feel more honestly. Without a doubt, these songs never sound old and the message here is more meaningful than it ever has been...

Bushfires Are 'Obliterating the Cultural Memory' of Australia's Aboriginal People and An Estimated 1.25 Billion Animals Have Perished

Yessenia Funes | EARTHER

The deadly, ongoing bushfires in Australia have been burning for months. Around Christmas, however, the glittering orange flames grew closer to the community of East Gippsland in eastern Victoria, home to more than 46,000 people. Alice Pepper, an indigenous community organizer with the Gunaikurnai people, among them.

Her people are the traditional owners of this land, and some 3,000 indigenous people still call this region home. When the fires came, they fled, just as their ancestors had nearly 200 years ago when European colonizers arrived only to massacre and separate families.

“Some of our people have lost their homes and everything in the fires, which has been very traumatic,” Pepper wrote in a statement to Earther.

The bushfires have become a traumatic event for the entire country as the country’s iconic wildlife suffers and the landscape turns black. But for the Aboriginal peoples, the fire crisis is especially traumatizing. Fire, an element indigenous groups across the continent once lived in harmony with, is now putting their cultural and sacred sites are at risk.

THE SUPREME JUBILEES • Standing In The Need of Prayer • 1979

Prayers UP for erry'body!

SWEET and INNOCENT • Express Your Love • 1972

❤Absolutely GORGEOUS and extremely RARE soul gem from 1972...❤

THE CLARK SISTERS • World • 1982

Well… you best know… one of these days these girls gon’ be right… but hey… even if the WORLD is about to end… that’s aight... and even a good thing really — the WORLD hates us anyway!… just don’t forget the most important thing about the WORLD ending -- after believing in Love Almighty and being repentant of sin, of course --  which is to know that the EARTH ain’t going nowhere… in fact, it’s going to be cleaned up and made all brand NEW again... and even BETTER… and the MEEK shall inherit it… Jesus promised… and I believe it… how ’bout you?

Bless all y’all on today… and unto eternity… because Yahshua-Salvation is FREE… 🕊

🔥🇯🇲 BRUSHY ONE STRING • Seven Blazing Joints Of Fire! • 2013-18 🇯🇲🔥

🔥🇯🇲 Brushy is a JAMAICAN LEGEND & 100% eye-ray REALNESS, mon! Seriously now, people ~ watch this man do more on these joyntz with just one string than most pop stars can do over their whole career with a top-flight budget provided by the Illuminati and an entire production team! PROOF that SOUL is erry'thang!!! 🇯🇲🔥