Speed of Life

by Gregg Chadwick “A time comes when silence is betrayal” - Martin Luther King Jr.    April 4, 1967 "So you have a moral obligation, a mission and a mandate, to speak up, speak out, and get in good trouble. You can do it. You must do it. Not just for yourselves but for generations yet unborn." - John Lewis    Lawrence University, June 2015  David Sancious’ new album Eyes Wide Open evokes Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On , Gil Scott Heron's Winter in America , Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner , Steely Dan's Kid Charlemagne , and Terence Blanchard 's music for Spike Lee's films. Sancious describes the album as “a movie for your ears.” Sancious' vocals, keyboards, and guitar are combined with spoken word passages, chants from protest marches, and news clips that form a cinematic soundscape which ventures into the urgent concerns of our time. Racial injustice, police violence against black folks, and the environmental destruction of our burn...

Powerful and Timely! Kudos to The Killers and Spike Lee "We got more people locked up than the rest of the world Right here in red, white and blue Incarceration's become big business It's harvest time out on the avenue" "So how may daughters, tell me how many sons Do we have to put in the ground before we just break down and face it We got a problem with guns" A real national emergency is the epidemic of gun violence in America. On average, 96 people die from it every single day. Let's do something about that. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 12, 2019 Bob Lefsetz writes,"The message of the song, the message of the video. What does America stand for? But that wall hasn't been built yet and the Killers don't want it to be. They're making a statement that will reach their fans more than anything in the "New York Times," never mind Fox News. That's the power of art, to change minds. And if ...