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David Sancious Opens Our Eyes to Good Trouble
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...
Herbie Hancock The Prisoner
So timeless, yet so timely. An ode to Martin Luther King Jr. and the continual struggle. Say it with me - Black Lives Matter!
Putin paid a bounty to kill American soldiers. @realDonaldTrump knew about it but did nothing.
Putin paid a bounty to kill American soldiers. @realDonaldTrump knew about it but did nothing. How can Trump lead America when he can't even defend it? pic.twitter.com/oEbnc2cWbT — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 28, 2020
Cocktails with a Curator: Stubbs's 'Portrait of Warren Hastings'
Mentioned in the episode is William Dalrymple's The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR Link at:
