Sun Ra singing Somewhere over the Rainbow to footage from Ailey's Revelations. Part one of the visual suite for A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom jazzfuneralforuncletom.tumblr.com. The book is soon come but this is its embryo and ghost. Put some respek on Tom's name... humor is respect.

James Scurlock, a 22-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a white bar owner on Saturday night in Omaha, Nebraska, during a George Floyd protest. Witnesses said the gunman used racial slurs before the shooting. #JamesScurlock thedailybeast.com/black-proteste…

In 1968, at age 33, Henry Dumas was murdered by police in Harlem. Toni Morrison said his writing was “some of the most beautiful, moving and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read.” This is also about generations of lost potential.

#SayHerName ✊🏾

We Shall Overcome youtu.be/PlBDjB6Oy-8 via YouTube Written by the Reverend Charles Tindley in 1900, done here by the great Marion Williams, first as a hard-driving gospel song, then as hymn set free of meter.

From the album Through Many Dangers, produced by gospel historian and critic Anthony Heilbut

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Books. Not everything can be watched, especially not if your watching is laced in the surveillance policing trapped in your subconscious.

"Did I get it right Mr. Barr?"

Support the Last Black Farmer in Rural Oklahoma gofundme.com/f/CircleRRanch…

NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street

In awe of this footage of a Burmese priestess doing a rain dance.

Friends, you have 2 weeks left to read or re-read Octavia Butler's prescient PARABLE OF THE SOWER before our NYC Writers Rebel #ClimateReads event on 9/22 via BPL Presents, hosted by the amazing Lisa Lucas! Register here:

This is flawless, form and content.

Remember the gross Birth of a Nation caricature of blacks desecrating Congress? We saw its true white enactment yesterday.

A reading guide on the Asian American experience from Viet Thanh Nguyen, Charles Yu and more lat.ms/2P4MH4Z

RT if you believe the Senate must act to protect voting rights no matter what.

The counter-diva Cécile McLorin Salvant brings a comedian’s timing and sensibility to jazz, by Margo Jefferson nyti.ms/2ndqZZS