People, freedom, music, problematizing 'culture', language, justice, hip hop, JAZZ, activism!, travel, quality literature, theater & poetry
None of us are free until all of us are free.
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Music:
Etta James, Stevie Wonder, Wordisbon, Billie Holiday, Monk, Marvin Gaye, TCQ, Mingus, Driemanskap (!), Illiterate Skill (!), Blackstar! (esp. Mos), Frou Frou, Mystic, Anthony Hamilton, K-Os, Juanes, The Roots, Jazzyfatnastees, Zion-I, DMB, Jack Johnson, Erykah, Hymphatic Thabs, Sublime, Citizen Cope, Damien Rice, Donny Hathaway, John Mayer, Corinne Bailey Rae, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, David Grey, Green Day, Zap Mama, Teitur, Russell Gunn, Tumi & the Volume, Miles Davis, Zamajobe, Hugh Masakela, Oliver Mtukudzi, Juan Luis Guerra, Zero 7, Ben Harper, John Coltrane, Roy Hargrove, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Marley.....not enough room.
Movies:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, City of God, Amores Perros, Sarafina!, Little Miss Sunshine, Raising Victor Vargas, School Daze, Snatch, Love Actually, Pieces of April, In America, Donnie Darko, Rabbit Proof Fence, CAMP, Amandla!, Igby Goes Down, Liberty Heights, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, KIDS, All About Eve, Dead Poets Society, Do the Right Thing...tons of 80's Molly Ringwaldesque flicks...
Television:
I don't get to watch too much tv...but I loveOz, The Wire, Rome, Law&Order (any one), CSI (not Miami)...anything HBO puts out...The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, and the Boondocks when McGruder's not flexing problematic gender politics :)
Books:
I Know This Much Is True (anything Wally Lamb), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers, The World According to Garp (anything John Irving), anything BECKETT, Virginia Woolf, or Toni Morrison, The Wretched of the Earth, Es'kia, Orientalism, anything Ronald Takaki or Edward Said, The Prophet, I Write What I Like-Steve Biko, Songs of the Unsung-Horace Tapscott, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Freedom Dreams- Robin DG Kelley, Race Rebels- Robin DG Kelley, If You Can't Be Free Be A Mystery- Farrah J. Griffin...i like non fiction.
Heroes:
Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama, Nat Turner and those like him...my grandparents & all immigrants who transform 'America', my momma.
