People and Life
Singers, producers, presenters, writers, collaborators, investors, real estate people, entrepreneurs, dancers, actors, directors, organizers, promoters, sound designers, builders, farmers/greenthumbs, holistic healers, people into fitness, and all-around positive people.
Noel Pointer Albert Ayler Marian Brown Bill Frisell Linda Jones Mahalia Jackson Sam Rivers Don Byron Craig Harris Gladys Knight and the Pips Little Eva Al Green Sly and the Family Stone Rael Wesley Grant John Scofield D.D. Jackson Bernice Johnson Reagon Lonnie Liston Smith The Family Stand Oliver Lake Roland Hayes Fontella Bass James Moody Jimmy Sabator Joe Bataan James Weidman Rido Bayonne Irma Thomas Alice Coltrane Bach Charles Mingus Sun Ra Jean Carn Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson Herbie Hancock Ray Charles The Rev. Gary Davis Bob Dylan Alan Dawson Son House Stevie Wonder Sister Rosetta Tharpe Jimi Hendrix Thomas A. Dorsey James Weldon Johnson H.T. Burleigh Big Maybelle Lee 'Scratch' Perry Carole King John Bonham Rahsaan Roland Kirk Milt Jackson James P. Johnson Nathaniel Dett Tania Maria Sonny Boy Williamson Dewey Redman Slim and Slam Marvin Gaye Alton Ellis Swan Silvertones Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers James Brown Judy Garland Bessie Smith Stevie Ray Vaughn Charlie Hunter Wax Poetic Soulive John McLauglin Buddy Guy Sandy Lopicic Orkestar Clifford Brown Louis Armstrong Pancho Quinto John Coltrane Carlos Santana Jacki Byard The Beatles
Un Train Nomme Salsa/A Train Named Salsa by Sylvie Bayonne, Frida, Jimi at Monterey, Jimi at Isle of Wight, Jimi on youtube
C-Span (online)
Jesus and the Disinherited by Dr. Howard Thurman, To Stand And Fight by Martha Biondi, Deep River by Howard Thurman, The Books of Traditional Black Spirituals by J. W. and J. R. Johnson, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Richest Man In Babylon, The 48 Laws of Power, A Higher Form of Killing, The Moors by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, The Black Jacobins by CLR James, Bright Moments by John Kruth, Faith In Time: The Autobiography of Jimmy Scott, A People's History of the US, The Pity of It All, John Brown: Abolitionist, The Making of the British Working Class (recommended to me by Greg Tate--a helluva read!), The Pity of it All, Healthy Living
My Mother, My Father, my bro Guy Bowman (RIP), Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Paul Robeson, Robert Nesta Marley, James Weldon Johnson, James Earl Mumford, Dr. William E.B. DuBois, Dr. John H. Clarke, Mary Lou Williams, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Roberto Clemente, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Walter Dewey Redman, Alice Coltrane, James Brown (Merry Jamesmas!), Walter Rodney, Dr. Chiek Anto Diop, and Huey Long, and people who read books, think for themselves, and don't let the media think for them.