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GM All. Happy Friday 😎

We rightly think of Sun Ra as a jazz musician, but he once played rhythm and blues. We tend to separate "intellectual" expression from blues & gospel. But if you actually saw him play w/ his Arkestra, you would have probably felt some type of head-nodding groove.

The #STLouisTornado. Some two-second thoughts. nicolebooksfilms.substack.com/p/a-two-second…

After years as a backup singer to names like Patti LaBelle and the Neville Brothers, Boutté became a star in her own right, putting a New Orleans flair on Black Church music with bands from across Europe. blackcatholicmessenger.org/lillian-boutte…

How are you celebrating #BlackMusicMonth 2025? Listen to, share, perform, program music by African American composers beginning with yours truly. ✅ my #ChicagoJazzFest set m.youtube.com/watch?v=bc1t9z… 🖤🎶

😎🚲 Happy World #BicycleDay 🚲 😎

A Montessori school named for Servant of God Thea Bowman will open this summer in Memphis, counteracting recent diocesan closures affecting the nation's largest majority-Black city. The project comes six years after the Memphis Jubilee Schools shutdown. blackcatholicmessenger.org/thea-bowman-mo…

We’re halfway thru this week. U’ve got this‼️

If U’re in town, I’ll be one of the Legacy Poets celebrating Our Mrs. Gwendolyn Brooks’ life thru poetry, fiction, etc. Pls join us Saturday: National Public Housing Museum, 919 South Ada 6/7/2025 at 2:PM FREE 📚✍🏽

Peep the dance gesture: #TheKineticAesthetic

Many thanks to Robin Smith and Kat Lehmann Blount for including my monoku in Whiptail, issue 13. body shaping the murmuration of norms whiptailjournal.com/_files/ugd/61a… #haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

Please check out "Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar" by Sharony Green.

Please explain it to me like I’m 5 years old….

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. —Gwendolyn Brooks, born #OTD in 1917 poets.org/poem/we-real-c…

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