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The Brooklyn Renaissance

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THE BROOKLYN RENAISSANCE presents...

A night filled with positivity & unity...Manjinga, the magic is in the MUSIC & YOU...
MANJINGA

Friday, June 27th @ SPUTNIK
262 TAAFFEE PLACE BY DEKALB AVE, BROOKLYN


9pm-4am FREE B4 10pm, $7 After :: Drink specials all night G TRAIN TO CLASSON AVE :: www.manjingaparty.com
REGGAE, AFRO BEAT, CLASSICS, & RARE GROOVES...MANJINGA GOES DOWN EVERY FINAL FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR SPRING MANJINGA! WE KEEP IT MOVING----COME OUT & CELEBRATE THE MAGIC OF SUMMER, GROOVE WITH US THIS MONTH; FRIDAY, June 27th FOR MANJINGA!


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In Jah light...Itinual

As always, we'll have a late night buffet and the deep-soul-dubwise-fresh-MANJINGA-rare-groove-style... for your dance bliss pleasure.

Vision. Livity. Guidance.

.You are The Brooklyn Renaissance.

My Interests

GOT FACEBOOK?CLICK HERE!BLACKPLANET?CLICK HERE!!
GOT CAPOEIRA?CLICK HERE!

I'd like to meet:


The Emperor of Crossroads . . . Queen Mother of Dreamscapes

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Music:

Sun Ra, Rakim, Roy Ayers, Ghostface, De La Soul, Max Roach, Herbie Hancock, Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Fela, Funkadelic, Bill Withers, Pharoah Sanders, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Mike Ladd, Nas, NEU, Prince, Cymande, Abbey Lincoln, Public Enemy, Raekwon, The Roots, Slick Rick, Rasheen Roland Kirk, Freestyle Fellowship, Stevie, Charlie Parker, Coltrane, Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Divine Styler, Freestyle Fellowship, Eric Dolphy, Kool G Rap, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, BDP, The Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Nesta Marley, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths, Garnett Silk, Yami Bolo, Capleton, Jacob Miller, Black Uhuru, Haile Selassie I, King of all Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God, Light of the World, Jah Ras Tafari, Sheila E., Fat Boys, The Brand New Heavies, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckels, Punk, Funk, Kelis,Throbbing Gristle, House, Acid Jazz, GOOD 80's stuff, The Clash, Jimi Hendrix, Biggie, The Doors, Jazzanova, Grace Jones, Al Green, Ben Harper. Billie Holiday, Blondie, Rich Medina, Jill Scott, dj Spinna, Pete Rock, Jay Dilla, Osunlade . . ...

Movies:

At Manjinga we've shown: Sugarcane Alley, Wattstax, Cubamor, The Wiz, The Last Dragon, Black Orpheus, Soul to Soul, Rockers, Countryman, Rize, The Richard Pryor Show, Krush Groove, Daughters Of The Dust, Cooley High, Block Party, Claudine, Let's Do It Again . . ...

Television:

...We had you Open

Books:

The Famished Road, The Alchemist, Tao Teh Ching, The Prophet, Invisible Cities, The Salt Eaters, Ghostly Matters, Baldwin - Collected Essays,The Autobiography of a Yogi, Race Against Empire, Keeping Good Time, Lolita, A History of Pan-African Revolt, The Black Woman - An Anthology, The African Origins of Civilization, They came before Columbus, Flash of the Spirit, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams, Black Marxism, Longing to Tell, The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Corregidora, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Azz, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison), Ellison - Collected Essays, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, House of the Sleeping Beauties, Collected Poems of Jay Wright, Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Banjo, Black is a Country, Sister Outsider, Six Memos for the Next Millinium, Collected Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, The Practice of Diaspora, Are Prisons Obsolete?, Cane, A People's History of the United States, Birth of a Nation (the book, by Hudlin & McGruder, not the movie!)..

Heroes:

You & I..

My Blog

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