The Blues Society released in 2023
In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28797163
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On January 27, 1955, less than three weeks after Marian Anderson became the first Black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera, Robert McFerrin Sr. became the first Black man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
In 1956, McFerrin played Rigoletto at the Met, thus becoming the first African American to sing a title role there. He also provided the singing to which Sidney Poitier lip-synched in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess.
McFerrin married Sara Cooper, also an opera singer. They had two children; their son is Bobby McFerrin of "Don't Worry Be Happy" fame and their daughter Brenda is a Motown recording artist. Bobby has three children, of whom two are musicians and one is an actor.
That's why you could create a white middle class with [Black] folk gaining no access to it. And then they create these housing projects that go all the way up to pack folk in, like sardines.
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Rare photos of #MichaelJackson during his childhood. ♥️
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I honestly don’t know which makes me laugh the hardest. The fact of what the lyrics actually are or the hysterical laughter of one of the men discussing this. This is my favorite video of the year so far.🩵🦁🦁🦁🩵
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I wrote a computer program to scrape the internet for deaths in pig custody, Black historical figures etc.
I now have a list of 29,000 ish such dates.
When I saw it was Diana Ross's birthday today,
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I'm here to once again shill one of my favourite albums of late. GO LISTENNN AND SUPPORT
10 track album
She's got me in a chokeeeholddd
Cops who raided rapper Afroman's home are now suing him — and he’s fighting back
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/cops-raided-rapper-afromans-home-162148379.html
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