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February 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
If Die Antwoord can, Jacob Zuma can too.
The South African President gets into character by updating his wardrobe and has a new single with some nice beats. He also gets some help from his man Julius Malema.
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Black History Month – Rashaan Roland Kirk – The Power of Jazz
Rashaan Roland Kirk was one of the most outspoken Jazz musicians during the period of the Civil Rights Movement. Often when performing, Kirk would make statements about Black history, Civil Rights and other topics to raise social awareness in between songs. In the 1960s and ’70s Kirk and trumpet player Lee Morgan started Jazz and the People’s Movement, an organization that tried to bring awareness to the lack of fair representation for African-American in the studio and music industry. The group would highlight television shows such as the Ed Sullivan Show, Dick Cavett’s show and Johnny Carson’s that they was not giving equal treatment to African-American musicians as guests on their show.
When Kirk was invited to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show out of fear of backlash from Jazz and People’s Movement, Rashaan brought an all star band with Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus and Roy Haynes. The band was supposed to play Kirk’s version of “My Cherie Amour” but when they got on stage they began playing an ‘out’ version if Mingus’ tune “Haitian Fight Song” and did not hold back. Some declare this a wasted opportunity in that Kirk showed why Jazz wasn’t featured more on television because the music they played wasn’t accessible to the average listener. However it could be argued that the reason this music was difficult to listen to is simply because mainstream media had refused to present it to the American people and they were hearing it for the first time. Whatever is around you on a daily basis would appear normal and that includes music as well.
Rashaan Roland Kirk’s musical approach and desire to raise social awareness was inspirational to his generation and generations to come. Kirk’s refusal to tone down his right and desire to freely express himself and what is meaningful to him is one of the most defining qualities of his genius.
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February 23, 2010
Update from Croix Des Bouquet: I Survived and I'm Back From Haiti
By Ezili Danto
Carl Thelemaque's Update and artwork fundraising: I Survived and I'm Back From Haiti
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Carl Thelemaque, Mahalia Stines, Patrick Lacroix
An Ezili Dantò poem (paying tribute to Haitian resilience, Carl's work in Haiti and urging support for his art fundraising.)************************
Carl's call for help to Ezili's HLLN from Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti
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Photos From Carl Thelemaque's artwork fundraising - "I Survived and I'm Back From Haiti Back" by Spring Break In Ayiti http://bit.ly/bF1yV1*
Update on Carl Thelemaque at Croix Des Bouquet
Podcast of interview with Ezili Dantò of HLLN on Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Feb. 8, 2010 (mp3)
***********************Thank you to all those in the Ezili/HLLN Network and those who read our piece on Oped News and the Ezili Danto blog who answered the call and sent help for Carl Thelemaque at Croix Des Bouquet.
Our call, and your response, is the sort of people-to-people solidarity that actually works and without taking away the victims' dignity, healing and sense of self.
Carl has written this brief note to you at the Ezili Network to thank everyone personally:
--- On Sun, 2/14/10, Carl Thelemaque, MPA wrote:
From: Carl Thelemaque, MPA
To: "zili danto"
Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 8:30 PM"Zili,
I would like to take a small opportunity to thank you for the kind of help you provided to me to help our brothers and sisters in need in Haiti. I am happy to have you as sister and a fellow soldier for Haiti. The network has been so responsive to our calls.
I would like to extend my thanks to a few individuals : Lynn, Coze Joseph, Yveline Momperousse, etc...
Please share my satisfaction to them for their assistance.
"*
So thank you to all who helped Carl Thelemaque and the children with their families that he is helping to provide emergency relief to in Croix Des Bouquet at the Lila Voix area in Haiti. Of course the need is still great. Carl told me the other day he helped to deliver a baby himself. Carl's number in Haiti is 3 676 7676 in addition to the 3 711 1771 we gave out on the original appeal. I spoke to Carl a few days ago.
After I spoke to Carl, I wrote this email update to the HLLN donors who had been writing to us about updates on Carl. I wrote:
"I spoke to Carl and asked him if he would kindly drop the Ezili Network a note. Let us know the sort of help he's gotten from the HLLN appeal. I know it's difficult for him to find the time and Internet access at this point but he says he will try.
During our conversation, Carl told me that the Ezili Network has been very helpful and that he is getting some help, including medical relief. Carl said that our appeal reached doctors who came to help him. He is now sending the injured directly to the Haitian doctors - HLLN's AMHE doctor collaborators and they are helping him. He also said some folks from NGO's came to look. But those from HLLN who gave medical help and donations, that was immediate and it wasn't about coming over to "review the situation" as many of the others have done without yet providing anything concrete.
Also, when I finally spoke again with Carl, he had this really wonderful guy named Bernado Rubie on the phone. Apparently Bernado has friends in the Dominican Republic and was the first to locate Carl and start helping him with the children and people in his neighborhood at Croix Des Bouquet. I actually met Bernado in New York later at public gathering where I'd invited him to come meet with me after Carl introduced us on a three-way conference call from Haiti.
I was on a panel on Haiti at the Greenspace performance center in SOHO, New York. When Carl first called HLLN, truly in need and needing help, we didn't ask why he was going to the Dominican Republic for medical relief. But later on, I thought about it.
Turns out that in the United States, Carl Thelemaque teaches art to Bernado's son, and others who have Down Syndrome.
Didn't know that about Carl.
Anyway, I am sharing this story because I think it's precious. Bernado says Carl is like a member of his family because he takes care of his son so well and gets him to communicate so much better and that he knew Carl was in Haiti with the DreamForHaiti children program when the earthquake hit.
When Carl finally called to say he was alive, but needed food, water and medical help, in New York, Bernado called his friends in the Dominican Republic. They got supplies, water, food, blankets, medicine together and drove it to the nearest Haitian border to where Carl is at Croix Des Bouquet, which is the Jimani border - about 3-hours away from Carl's location in Haiti. (I thought before that Carl was driving the 10-hour to the border at Cap Haitian to cross into the DR. I supposed because that's what we did initially, back and forth since the earthquake to catch a plane back to the States.)
Anyway, it is very precious that folks in the DR where going back and forth like that for Carl and Bernado. It just underlines what we say at the Network - that we have to ignore the corporatocracy governments and go people-to-people. Because they just sometimes don't represent us, only Wall Street.
Bernado was an exceptional human being, very nice, kind with a big heart. When I met him, I said to him that Ezili's HLLN has about 15 different sectors throughout Haiti that we are working logistics for, sending monies to and to bringing some medical help to in Haiti and since we can't micromanage them, next time someone writes us about Carl and ask how he is doing, we'll refer them to Bernado Rubie and his volunteers in New York. Because the are working only on Carl's camp and could give better details and attention than we, who are juggling with so much.
So folks, Bernado's number in the United States is 646 261 5334. His email is at "mauricio donaldson" <bmrubie@gmail.com>. Just cc us at "HLLN" <erzilidanto@yahoo.com> and keep us in the loop. Thanks again to all who answered our call for Carl and who are continuing to help the Lila Voix people. Your efforts helped someone eat, drink and suffer less today. That's a wonderful thing."
*Also, when next Al Jazeera called our office, we sent them to Carl in Haiti to do a story on what he is doing. We know also that our appeal allowed for Free Speech radio to cover Carl's camp.
*
Carl traveled to the United States this week to attend a fundraiser, featuring his art work, that Bernado and others helped him set up to help the Croix Des Bouquet camp. The even took place in New York on Thursday, Feb. 18th at the Bread and Roses gallery, 1199 Building.
In his absence, the folks answering the Carl Thelemaque's Haiti numbers above are well able to receive your continued help.
Below are some photos from Carl's gallery exhibition. The people of Lila Voix, Croix Des Bouquet still need our help. The camp has grown to over 15,000 people now and with the rainy season upon us and the shock wearing off, thinking time provided, there are a lot of suicides happening everyday as well as children to bury. So please continue to help this community in need. Call Bernado or the Haiti number if you're in Haiti. Buy a painting from Carl to help him rebuild his own house, his own family and be better able to help those he's become a lifeline for. Mesi anpil.
Men anpil chay pa lou - Many Hands Make Light A Heavy Load.
Ezili Danto/HLLN
February, 2010*****Photos from Carl's gallery exhibition on the 18th at the Bread & Roses Gallery, New York, New York.
Carl Thelemaque, Patrick Lacroix, Bernado Rubie
Patrick Lacroix introducing artist/activist/community leader and HLLNetwork member,
Carl Thelemaque: I Survived the earthquake and I'm Back From Haiti
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Bernardo Rubie- our hero!
Carl' daughter, Carl Thelemaque, with his art work all around, speaking about his community and relief work to help his neighbors at Lila Voix, Croix Des Bouquet, Haiti
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Carl Thelemaque, Ezili Dantò, Famous Haitian artist/choreographer, Patrick LaCroix
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Carl Thelemaque, Ezili Dantò, Patrick LaCroix
- in the zone: moving and praising the Ancestors for all of Ayiti.
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Carl Thelemaque, Patrick LaCroix and Ezili Dantò (paying tribute to Carl's amazing humanitarian efforts bringing hope, healing, dignity and saving lives in Lila Voix at Croix Des Bouquet Port-auPrince, Haiti and urging support for his art fundraising.)
Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
Mahalia Stines, Patrick LaCroix, Carl Thelemaque, Ezili Dantò
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Photo Credit: Springbreak in Ayiti
An Ezili Dantò poem (paying tribute to Haitian resilience, Carl's work in Haiti and urging support for his art fundraising.)Back to Spring Break In Ayiti's Photos
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Carl's call for help to Ezili's HLLN from Croix-des-Bouquets, HaitiPodcast of interview with Ezili Dantò of HLLN on Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Feb. 8, 2010 (mp3)
Aid Distribution Catastrophe by the Haitian Blogger
***********************Author's Bio: Human Rights Lawyer, Ezili Danto/Marguerite Laurent is dedicated to correcting the media lies and colonial narratives about Haiti. A writer, performance poet and lawyer, Ezili Danto is founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, runs the Ezili Danto website, listserve, eyewitness project, FreeHaitiMovement and the on-line journal, Haitian Perspectives.
SEVENTH ANNUAL MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010
CONTEST JUDGE: Anne Waldman
The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize offers a cash award of $1,000.00 plus publication of the winning book. It is judged by a poet of national stature. The winner's name and title of the winning book are announced and advertised nationally.
CONTEST MAILING ADDRESS:
Marsh Hawk Press, P.O. Box 206, East Rockaway, N. Y. 11518-0206
For a printable a copy of these rules click here. (Requires Adobe Reader)
Call for Submissions: Volume XXIV (2011)
Witness seeks manuscripts for a portfolio titled "Blurring Borders." In addition to general submissions, we invite work that addresses border crossing, immigration, and diaspora communities, or that confronts boundaries and margins related to community, ethnicity, sexuality, and language. The portfolio will be paired with content from the April 2010 Black Mountain Institute panel, also titled "Blurring Borders," with Junot Diaz, Yiyun Li, and Pablo Medina.
General guidelines• Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome between September 1 and April 1. Work that arrives outside that period will be returned unread.• We accept simultaneous submissions provided that you notify us promptly at witness@unlv.edu if the work is accepted elsewhere.
• Our reporting time is generally eight to twelve weeks, although we sometimes take longer over the winter holidays. After twelve weeks, you are welcome to contact us by e-mail about the status of your submission. In your e-mail, please specify whether your submitted your work online or by mail.
• We do not accept previously published work.
• Please limit your submission to one story, one essay, or five poems at a time. We do not have a word limit.
• Please don’t send a second submission until you’ve received a response about the first.
• Witness pays $10 per printed page.
Advice• Please review the contents of our current issue before submitting.• We don’t favor particular styles or genres. In general, we seek work that ventures away from the American experience and into international terrain, and that promotes the modern writer as witness to his or her times. That said, we always select the best work that comes to us, regardless of content.
How to submit online• To help us reduce paper waste, please submit through our online submission manager.• All files must be saved in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf).
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• Work should be formatted on letter-sized paper, double-spaced, and set in a standard (Times, Helvetica, Arial) 12-point typeface.
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How to submit by mail• Beginning September 1, 2010, we will no longer accept submissions by mail.• Submissions by mail must include a SASE and should be sent to the address below. We will recycle your manuscript unless you request its return in your cover letter.
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Contributor's Guidelines
Writer's Guidelines
We're looking for anything that can be described as "feminist response to pop culture." Our definition of pop culture is broad, encompassing cultural attitudes and myths, phenomena of the popular imagination, and social trends as well as movies, TV, magazines, books, advertising, and the like. Interviews with feminist culture-makers are welcome, as are book and music reviews and nuanced analyses of particularly horrifying and/or inspiring examples of pop culture. Nonfiction essays only. We do not publish fiction or poetry. Ever. Seriously. Finished work and query letters are both welcome. If sending only a query, please include clips and/or writing samples. And hey, everyone likes a nice cover letter. We prefer e-mail submissions.
More details:
Features are 2,000 to 4,000 words of meaty critiques, essays, and articles on pop culture from a feminist perspective. We're looking for sharp-eyed perspectives on pop culture and the media, brimming with personal insight and wit. Features vary in format: interviews, reported pieces, and critical essays are welcome, as are roundups and graphically driven formats like timelines, charts, and comics. (Features from the recent past include interviews with Janeane Garofalo, Alison Bechdel, and Coco Fusco; a roundup of female visual artists and their takes on the domestic realm; an analysis of woman’s political humor; and an exploration of how guilty pleasures are marketed to women.) We are not looking for personal essays.
In addition to features, we’re in search of shorter pieces for the front of the magazine. Our front-of-book section features 1000-1500-word columns on film, television, language, activism, advertising, publishing, and more, with pieces taking the form of reviews, critical essays, Q&As, and activist profiles. Past columns have featured a look at how "liberal" became a bad word, an examination of cultural stereotypes about women and hoarding, and a look at the practice of "unschooling."
We also have a back page to fill, generally with a brief history of a pop-culture phenomenon, in our "Annals of..." column.
We're always on the lookout for Love It/Shove It items. Love/Shoves are short (under 500 words) but sharp-eyed and cogent analyses of the latest things that either pleased you or enraged you. We're looking for pieces that are timely, and, more important, go beyond the sentiment of "wow, this sucks!" in search of deeper meaning. Love/Shoves are accepted on a rolling basis, and are often printed on our website as well as in the magazine, so send things along whenever the mood strikes.
Payment is $100 for features, $50 for front-of-book pieces and back-page pieces, and $10-$20 for Love/Shoves. Please send all materials to info@b-word.org, or attn: Submissions, 4930 NE 29th Ave., Portland, OR 97211. (Don’t forget your SASE when sending by mail!)
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Our themes are intended to be nonexclusive jumping-off points rather than limiting factors, and below we've included a few key words that may help along your fabulous brainstorms. We encourage you not to interpret the themes too literally, and in fact to go ahead and interpret them as loosely as you wish. Furthermore, if you have an idea you think is right for us but that fits no theme, go ahead and pitch it anyway.
Make-Believe (#48, Fall 2010)
Pitch deadline: April 1, 2010
Key Words: fantasy, delusion, chimera, kinks
Confidential (#49, Winter 2011)
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A feature length documentary of the black arts movement that exploded in Fort Greene from the mid 1980s through the 90s as intimately told by writer, historian and director, Nelson George. The film features Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Rosie Perez, Branford Marsalis, Vernon Reid, Carl Hancock Rux, Saul Williams, Lorna Simpson, Alva Rogers, Kevin Powell, Toure, Bill Stephany to name a few.Directors: Nelson George & Diane ParagasWriter: Nelson GeorgeEditor: Diane ParagasCinematography: Diane Paragas, Francisco AliwalisMusic: Dreaming in Fort Greene by Poogie BellProducer: Nicole NelchThe film is currently in production.via vimeo.com
Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Poem Animation
Heres a virtual movie of Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) discussing and reading his earliest and possibly best known poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" written the summer after his graduation from high school in Cleveland, and first published in an African American publication called "Crisis" in (1921).
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.Lest weiter auf afroklick.de/Menschen - Ein Nachruf auf den afroamerikanischen Schriftsteller Langston Hughes
Vorschau
Das neue schwarze Selbstbewusstsein
"We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."
und
Die harten Wanderjahre
„There was one thing that hurt me a lot when I talked with the people: The africans looked at me and would not believe I was a Negro. “
Das schwarze Harlem
Juke Box Love Song
I could take the Harlem night
and wrap around you,
Take the neon lights and make a crown,
Take the Lenox Avenue busses,
Taxis, subways,
And for your love song tone their rumble down.
Take Harlem's heartbeat,
Make a drumbeat,
Put it on a record, let it whirl,
And while we listen to it play,
Dance with you till day--
Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl.
UMSL to host Sapphire, author of ‘Push,’ March 1
Feb 11, 2010 by Maureen Zegel
From: firstciv24@mindspring.com>">"First Civilizations" <firstciv24@mindspring.com> Subject: SAPPHIRE author of PUSH, INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT MOVIE PRECIOUS | LECTURE, MARCH 1, 2010 at 7PM | UM-St. Louis Century Rooms, Millennium Student Center, One University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121 | 314.516.5291 for more info. Date: February 25, 2010 2:31:47 AM CST To: firstciv24@mindspring.com>">"First Civilizations" <firstciv24@mindspring.com>
Sapphire, a noted black author, criss-crosses the country these days speaking to standing-room only crowds. She’s comfortable with an audience, having gotten her literary start with performance poetry in New York City. But since her character, Precious, from the movie of the same name was introduced in 2009, the crowds are a lot bigger.
Sapphire will speak March 1 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on her 1996 novel, “Push,” the basis of the award-winning movie, “Precious.” The talk begins at 7 p.m. in the Century Rooms at the Millennium Student Center on the university’s North Campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. It is co-sponsored by UMSL’s Office of Student Life, First Civilizations, and the Family Resource Center, a St. Louis agency that treats and prevents child abuse and neglect.
With six Oscar nominations and several other prestigious film awards conferred, “Precious” is the story of a dark-skinned, obese, illiterate, African-American teen living Harlem, New York in 1987. Emotionally and sexually abused by her parents, Claireece Precious Jones has survived multiple pregnancies by her father. The gut-wrenching, gritty story mimics real life in many communities, according to its creator.
In 1993, Sapphire was teaching remedial reading classes in a public school in Harlem. She encountered girls just like Precious, girls who had been shunned, who had been locked out of every facet of their culture. So, she wrote the story. Immediately controversial — and successful — “Push” was named one of the top 25 books of the year by the Village Voice in 1996. In addition, it received the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
Born Ramona Lofton in 1050 in Fort Ord, Calif., she and her brother traveled the country with her parents, both of whom were in the U.S. Army. She moved to New York and started writing poetry under the name Sapphire during the 1980s, reading aloud in Greenwich Village cafes. Her first book, “American Dreams,” a collection of poems and prose, was published in 1994.
For more information on Sapphire’s talk, contact UMSL’s Office of Student Life at 314-516-5291 or visit http://www.umsl.edu/studentlife/osl/index.html. For more information on the Family Resource Center, call 314-534-9350 or visit http://frcmo.org/
