JOE CHAMBERS and LARRY YOUNG • Hello To The Wind • 1977

   

 

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THE TRUTHETTES • Be Patient • 1999

 

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Has Anyone Else Noticed How HYPOCRITICAL The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Is Being When It Comes To NAMING VIRUS VARIANTS?

☝️The simple facts provided in this brief news segment are discussed freely in India but for some odd reason conspicuously absent from most U.S. media... I wonder why? An excellent follow-up to the post I made a year ago about this gross double-standard.

CURTIS MAYFIELD • Something To Believe In • 1980

    

Since time began...

For Black America, the Derek Chauvin verdict hits on a spiritual level

 

Opinion: George Floyd is no longer with us, but his spirit lives on in a firm and damning guilty verdict that means so much to a community terrorized by violence

Sophia A. Nelson | THE GRIO

April 21, 2021

There is something soul-stirring about the Black church. When you grow up as I did, and many of us did in Black spaces of worship, there is no place, no singing, no rhythm, no comfort, no experience quite like the booming voice of the Black Pastor, the Black choir singing, and the church lady’s big hats swaying as they fan themselves and nod their heads.

We are a praying people. We are a forgiving people. And we are spiritual warrior people; when everything comes against us, we wage war in the spirit.

Justice was served in Minneapolis Tuesday in a deeply spiritual way. George Floyd is no longer with us, but his spirit lives on in a firm and damning guilty verdict that is the first of its kind in the United States in a midwestern state known for police aggression and violence against Black men.

DOROTHY NORWOOD • There's Got To Be Rain In Your Life (To Appreciate The Sunshine) • 1978

     

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WOODY SHAW • Soulfully I Love You (Black Spiritual of Love) • 1976

    

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Police legally allowed to stop (Black) people for air fresheners

 

"The danger that police traffic stops pose greatly outweighs any benefit"

Ashley Terrell | THE GRIO

Air fresheners that hang from rearview mirrors, a common accessory for cars, can be seen as illegal in some states that have laws prohibiting objects that can obstruct a driver’s view.

‘Who Had Woke Pat Robertson on Their 2021 Bingo Card?’ Televangelist Sets Twitter Ablaze with Anti-Police Brutality Rant

 

Tommy Christopher | MEDIAITE

Televangelist Pat Robertson became an unlikely viral sensation when social media users got a load of the anti-police brutality rant that unfolded during his 700 Club program Thursday.

Robertson prefaced the rant with a demonstration the difference between a Glock handgun and a Taser, which was pegged to a news report on the arrest of former police officer Kim Potter for the killing of Daunte Wright.

Outcry as Video Shows ROBODOG Patrolling With NYPD... CHINA (and GLOBAL FASCISM) says, LMA😂!!!

 

"What the fuck is this is the exact right reaction."

VICTOR TANGERMANN | FUTURISM

A new video going viral on Twitter shows a robot police dog patrolling with cops from the New York City police department.

BOB MARLEY and the WAILERS • So Much Trouble In The World • LIVE at the APOLLO, NYC • 1979

 

  

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🌋Volcano with a 'DEADLY REPUTATION' has MASSIVE eruption on Caribbean island populated primarily by descendants of slavery🌋

 

Why the volcano erupting in the Caribbean has such a deadly reputation

La Soufrière on the island of St. Vincent, which last erupted in 1979, has a long and tragic history of powerful but mercurial blasts

ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Since December 2020, a strange and gloopy mass of lava has been oozing from the top of La Soufrière, a volcano on the northern side of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. This eruption posed no real threat to the 110,000 or so people living on the island, but things took a turn for the worse at the end of March, when the volcano began shaking in a way that suggested something more violent was coming.

THE WALTER HAWKINS FAMILY • Try Christ • 1980

 

Will you?

PERSPECTIVE: I’m A Black Mother And Educator. Here’s Why I Let My Kids Read Racist Books.

 

Canceling books “is antithetical to learning and growth,” the author argues. “We cannot eliminate the past. We must read these racist books and we must learn from them. While I struggled with the denouncement of books like ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Little House on the Prairie,’ I also found myself experiencing an awakening.”

Nashae Jones | HUFF POST PERSONAL

It was just after the news broke about Dr. Seuss that I pulled my kids onto the living room couch for family read-aloud time. I decided that we were going to read Dr. Seuss’ “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street.” I cradled the book in my hands, feeling very much like I was palming explosive contraband.

MYRNA SUMMERS • In the Morning When I Rise • 1977

    

May EVERY day be a day to rise until the one when we are all raised up in glory!

What is the REAL cost of a cell phone?

        

☝️OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY! Crucial information EVERYONE should know about. Predictably, exploitation in AFRICA and CHINA in the mix once again here. Let's not forget where all this ends up when it's garbage -- and if ANYONE can watch this and still persuade me that mankind can SAVE HIMSELF with his own inventions, I'd really just LOVE to hear that schpiel...🤔

New York now has one of the most equity-focused cannabis laws in the country

    

New York's marijuana law can finally reverse the drug war's harm

It took years, but the state's new law should be a model for the rest of the country

Hayes Brown | MSNBC

New York City isn't usually so late to trends. It's been 25 years since California first legalized marijuana for medical use. Almost nine years have passed since Colorado and Washington became the first states to make recreational cannabis legal. But residents of the fourth-largest state, home to the biggest city in the country, and one of the most progressive, had to watch as 13 other states and Washington, D.C., followed suit.

That changed Wednesday, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally signed a long-awaited bill to create a recreational marketplace for weed in the state. And given how much the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act does to erase decades of injustice, it was absolutely worth the wait.

CREATIVE SOURCE • Migration • 1974

    

That incomperable 70's sound - with Motown legend JAMES JAMERSON on bass...