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July 28, 2020

Gallup Poll

The U.S. approval rate is down from 48% in 2016, and it slides even lower among democratic allies like Canada (20%) and Germany (12%). Any significant improvements, the report notes,…
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July 27, 2020

American Catastrophe Through German Eyes

“The American catastrophe seems to get worse every day, but the events in Portland have particularly alarmed me as a kind of strategic experiment for fascism. The playbook from the…
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July 26, 2020

Stop Fretting About Trump And Do Something About It. Right Now.

Stop Fretting About Trump And Do Something About It. Right Now. Please copy and paste  vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote  into your browser, spend 30 seconds entering your name, address and date of birth,…
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July 13, 2020

U.S. budget deficit shattered one-month record in June as spending outpaced revenue by $864 billion

At this point, anyone who doesn’t see that this idiot is doing to the whole country what he did to his casinos and football league and hotels and airline and…
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July 8, 2020

Caroline Randall Williams

I suggest we give Caroline Randall Williams our full attention. This video is a poem from her book and her ballet, Lucy Negro Redux. Here is a link to a…
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July 6, 2020

Toni Morrison on the moral high ground.

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June 30, 2020

Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff is our leading public intellectual. She has decoded technological authoritarianism.
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June 28, 2020

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

From Martin Luther King Jr: There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today. In a sense it is a…
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June 26, 2020

Reconstruction In America

Here is a link to knowledge crucial for the liberation of Americans of all ancestries, particularly those of European ancestry. It is essential that we, of European ancestry, put our…
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June 23, 2020

A Conversation on Race and Privilege

A Conversation on Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott
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June 22, 2020

Reconstruction in America

Now is the time to finally resolve the Civil War in favor of equality for- and the end of oppression of- African Americans. The Civil War will finally be ended…
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June 16, 2020

Trackdown

One of the greatest hits of the last four years. I suspect that this episode of television programmed and cemented phrases and ideas into the malleable and vengeful mind of…
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June 14, 2020

Author Kimberly Jones says it.

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June 10, 2020

Interview with @LincolnsBible

Here is some interesting history from @LincolnsBible
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June 6, 2020

Buzzard Lope

Bill Monroe said he played the ancient sounds. He meant the birds and the frogs and the crickets and the wind and the water. I’ve heard bullfrogs under a bridge…
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June 5, 2020

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Words On Racism

There is no such thing as race. Racism is a construct. Toni Morrison
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June 4, 2020

James Baldwin: How To Cool It

"In Esquire's July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. We've…
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June 3, 2020

Mal Hombre/Cold Hearted Man

Here is an English translation of an epic song from Lydia Mendoza. This one goes out to whomever had Jeffrey Epstein killed. (And, of course, to Epstein himself.)   Mal Hombre …
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June 1, 2020

Bo Diddley & Norma Jean Wofford

Two songs from the great Bo Diddley with the great Norma Jean Wofford. One of the great all time bands.
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June 1, 2020

Two songs from the great Bo Diddley with the great Norma Jean Wofford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZHB3ozglQ One of the great all time bands.
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May 31, 2020

Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach – Driva Man

For Sunday, some holy music from Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach - Driva Man
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May 30, 2020

Anti-Racism Resources

“Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. ... But in the final analysis, a riot is…
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May 28, 2020

Gambling Barroom Blues takes up where St James Infirmary leaves off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5W7q8IsnPs St James Infirmary It was down in Old Joe's barroom, On the corner by the square, The usual crowd was assembled And big Joe Mckinney was there. He was…
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May 27, 2020

Canray Fontenot: Barres De La Prison (1983)

https://youtu.be/as6mxuMNTZ4  
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May 26, 2020

A No Man’s Land

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May 25, 2020

Aretha Franklin I Love the Lord and Higher Ground

This is the most profound recording I have ever been fortunate enough to be a part of. https://vimeo.com/204708841  
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May 24, 2020

Rance Allen I Stood on the Banks of Jordan at the White House

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May 23, 2020

The Midnight Hour – Lee Williams & The Spiritual QC’s,”The Collection”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNoqddvDQs  
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May 22, 2020

Roscoe Holcomb “Little Birdy” and “Graveyard Blues”

An untamed sense of control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wGgvbHcgyc  
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May 21, 2020

Here is the contemporaneous newspaper story behind one of the great blues song this country has produced.

Here is the contemporaneous newspaper story behind one of the great blues song this country has produced.     There have been many killer versions of this legend from Lloyd…
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May 19, 2020

Art Never Dies

It outlives the contentious political veneer that we cast over everything. Read more here.
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May 17, 2020

The original Heavenly Gospel Singers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmlekGZb2qs  
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May 17, 2020

The Heavenly Gospel Singers of Jackson, Mississippi

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May 17, 2020

SHIFT

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May 13, 2020

Life is a hard battle anyway.

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not…
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May 12, 2020

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.    Martin Luther King Jr 
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May 12, 2020

A Reason to Play Music

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May 8, 2020

When Einstein Met Chaplin

In January 1931, Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin at the City of Lights premiere. Prior to this meeting, Einstein had once said that Charlie Chaplin was the only person that…
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May 4, 2020

She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next? NYT

"Laurie Garrett, who was prescient not only about the impact of H.I.V. but also about the emergence and global spread of more contagious pathogens, was featured in Frank Bruni’s column…
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May 1, 2020

Logan Ledger “Imagining Raindrops”

Watch the video from the State House Sessions       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbo9JdygwKk
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April 29, 2020

Donald Trump has destroyed the country he promised to make great again

When he was running for the position of President of the United States, the person who now sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office said the world is…
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April 28, 2020

Trump and the Criminal Culture: Here is a perceptive overview.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has resisted advice from anyone qualified to deal with it, because he believes this would mean ceding some of his personal power. He prefers to…
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April 24, 2020

The President Who Wasn’t There: The Tireless and Tragic Push to Make Donald Trump Competent by Jared Sexton

"Jared Yates Sexton has put with concision what I have been writing about my whole life. I am grateful and relieved, I suppose, that someone else has seen it and…
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November 22, 2019

Sacha Baron Cohen

"When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private…
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October 4, 2019

The Invisible Light Acoustic Space: Instrumentals

Instrumentals are now available for T. Bone Burnett's "The Invisible Light Acoustic Space"   Take a listen here
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September 18, 2019

The Tech Industry’s War on Kids

How psychology is being used as a weapon against children. Read more here
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August 30, 2019

The Reasonable Rebel

After the El Paso shooting, Ben Shapiro, a popular conservative podcaster, asked Americans to draw a line between the few conservatives who are white supremacists and those who, like him, aren’t.…
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August 28, 2019

The Oligarch Threat

"On July 24, 2019, a buoyant Boris Johnson swept past crowds shouting “Bollocks to Brexit! Bollocks to Boris!” and was ushered into the hushed splendor of Buckingham Palace. There, he…
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July 30, 2019

Embarrassed by American Christianity

"It happens more and more these days. I’m embarrassed by much of American Christianity. I’ve spent a lifetime bring proud of the word, “Christian.” As a child, when other young…
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July 19, 2019

“I Scare Myself” Live

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July 18, 2019

Theres more to life than being happy

"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."   In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a…
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July 17, 2019

Trump, McCarthy and Fascism

"Trump’s recent outburst — telling AOC and her squad to leave America — is so reminiscent of the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950’s. Of course both men…
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July 17, 2019

Biography of Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr

Read about Dr. Mason here
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July 16, 2019

Human Beatbox

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July 15, 2019

Silicon Valley Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse

"How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the…
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July 12, 2019

Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day

By DELMORE SCHWARTZ Calmly we walk through this April’s day, Metropolitan poetry here and there, In the park sit pauper and rentier, The screaming children, the motor-car Fugitive about us, running…
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July 9, 2019

Space Debris

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July 8, 2019

“Who cares, I have nothing to hide” — Why the popular response to online privacy is so flawed

On March 17, whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that software company Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from 50 million Facebook users to serve advertisements for the Trump campaign. Facebook said that the social…
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July 5, 2019

Exploring Bob Dylan’s New York

Mike Porco owned the restaurant-turned-music-venue Gerde’s Folk City in New York’s Greenwich Village, and one October night, a few friends showed up to celebrate Mr. Porco’s birthday. Allen Ginsberg was there, as…
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July 1, 2019

The Problem:

The extractive attention economy is tearing apart our shared social fabric. The companies that created social media and mobile tech have benefited our lives enormously. But even with the best…
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June 24, 2019

Asimov’s “Three Laws”

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except…
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May 20, 2019

The Glory Game At Goat Hills: Good times and good ol’ boys on a Texas golf course

In honor of Sports Illustrated's 60th anniversary, SI.com is republishing, in full, 60 of the best stories to ever run in the magazine. Today's selection is "The Glory Game At Goat…
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May 17, 2019

Seriously – This American Life, Sara Bareilles, and Leslie Odom, Jr.

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May 8, 2019

Marshall McLuhan 1974 – Full lecture Living in an Acoustic World | University of South Florida

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May 3, 2019

Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Joshua Speed

"Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed met in Springfield, Illinois, during the 1830s. Although Speed returned to his native Kentucky, they remained friends throughout life. In this letter, Lincoln expresses his…
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May 1, 2019

9 99 1-2 Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes

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April 30, 2019

A New Book Details the Damage Done by the Right-Wing Media in 2016

"Through data analysis, the authors of “Network Propaganda” illustrate that right-wing news outlets exist in an ecosystem that promotes “disinformation, lies and half-truths.”" Read More Here
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April 29, 2019

“I WAS DEVASTATED”: TIM BERNERS-LEE, THE MAN WHO CREATED THE WORLD WIDE WEB, HAS SOME REGRETS

Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance. But he’s got a plan to fix it. Read More Here
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March 21, 2019

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has…
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March 18, 2019

House of Commons (UK): Disinformation and ‘fake news’ Final Report

“Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like 'digital gangsters' in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law." Read more here
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March 15, 2019

The Century of the Self – Part 1: “Happiness Machines”

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take…
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March 14, 2019

Maybe the Internet is Just a Dumb Pipe

“Content is king” was the catch-phrase of the 1990s and the heady (headless really) days of the Dot Com bubble. And although that stopped being a slogan with the resurgence…
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March 13, 2019

T Bone’s SXSW KEYNOTE ADDRESS

I am going to begin today with a quote from Marshall McLuhan from his 1962 book,  The Gutenberg Galaxy: “Instead of tending toward a vast Alexandrian library the world has…
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March 12, 2019

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

"Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism." Read more here
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March 10, 2019

On Contact: Russiagate & Mueller Report w/ Aaron Mate

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January 24, 2019

NOTES ON THE INVISIBLE LIGHT

The Invisible Light is a song cycle concerned with the reality that we have been the subjects of over a century of electronic programming. It is trance music. It is…
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