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Bruce Springsteen's Album "Nebraska" was released on September 30, 1982
"Highway Patrolman" from the album "Nebraska" Recorded live at Brendan Byrne Arena on August 5, 1984 Film clips are from the Sean Penn directed movie "The Indian Runner" (1991)
Take a Knee
"... I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world." - Jackie Robinson, 1972 Many are "more dedicated to order than to justice," offended by kneeling during the Anthem & not by racism & modern-day lynching. #TakeAKnee pic.twitter.com/E23oM1ZW6X — The King Center (@TheKingCenter) September 23, 2017 To Trump, the NFL Players are mere property and he is calling out to their “owners” to discipline them for speaking. This sounds familiar. — deray mckesson (@deray) September 24, 2017 Symbols matter. Protest works. Patriotism is taking a stand against injustice in whatever way you can. pic.twitter.com/G5QRhWfRnz — Beau Willimon (@BeauWillimon) September 23, 2017 And here is what the Pittsburgh Steelers sideline looked like during the national anthem pic.twitter.com/1QOQJagAco — Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) September 24, 2017 Trump tried to intimidate the players into not kneeling....
New Biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
“Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons are to be learned in these pages.” —David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize Walter Isaacson, author of a new biography of Leonardo da Vinci , discusses the Renaissance genius' wildly eclectic notebooks that contained everything from landscape sketches to math equations to 'to do' lists. For more about Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson http://ow.ly/cHwn30d8Yrg Book available for purchase at Amazon and Powell's Also by Walter Isaacson
Jhene Aiko's new album! Listen to 'Trip' here
"Laced with 22 tracks, Trip shreds the public's perception of Aiko and allows everyone to walk into the life of Penny, a nickname she was given by her great-grandfather when she was a child. For the first time, Aiko gives listeners a front row seat and allows them to watch her undergo a whirlwind of emotions, including love, pain, depression and, ultimately, triumph." - Carl Lamarre, Billboard RIP Miyagi!