Khalil Gibran Muhammad on the Supreme Court decision, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, and Sotomayor's dissent

Returning to New Day Jazz this Sunday afternoon, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Mr. Muhammad and I will be discussing the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action (Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action), Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion, and whatever else the day might recommend.

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Artist	Song	Album	Label
Hampton Hawes	Blue Skies	The Green Leaves of Summer	Contemporary
Cassandra Wilson	Blue Skies	Blue Skies	JMT
John Kirby & His Orchestra	Blues Skies	The Biggest Little Band in the Land	Smithsonian
John Kirby & His Onyx Club Boys	Rehearsin' for a Nervous Breakdown	The Biggest Little Band in the Land	Smithsonian
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Hip Chic	1938	Smithsonian
Albert Ammons	Boogie Woogie Stomp	Blue Note 1939-1949	Blue Note
LaVern Baker	Soul on Fire	LaVern Baker	Atlantic
Ray Charles	I Wonder	Greatest Hits	ABC-Paramount
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	From Bechet, Byas, and Fats	Rip Rig and Panic	Limelight
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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Johnny Come Lately	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
Duke Ellinton & Billy Strayhorn	Johnny Come Lately	Great Times!	Prestige
Billy Strayhorn All-Stars	Swamp Drum	Billy Strayhorn All-Stars	Prestige
Johnny Hodges All-Stars	Lotus Blossom	Johnny Hodges All-Stars	Prestige
Johnny Hodges All-Stars	Violet Blue	Johnny Hodges All-Stars	Prestige
Carmen McRae	Easy to Love	Easy to Love	Bethlehem
Freddie Hubbard	You're My Everything	Hub-Tones	Blue Note
Cassandra Wilson	Let's Face the Music	Days Aweigh	JMT
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Hank Mobley	Roll Call	Roll Call	Blue Note
John Coltrane	Resolution	A Love Supreme	Impulse
Mahalia Jackson	I Found the Answer	Great Gettin' Up Morning	Columbia
T-Bone Walker	Mean Old World	T-Bone Blues	Atlantic
Ada Lee	In the Dark	Ada Lee Comes On	Atlantic
Teri Thornton	I Believe in You	Somewhere In the Night	Dauntless
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Don Byas & Slam Stewart	I Got Rhythm	Commodore Classics	Commodore
Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad by Justin Desmangles
Maxine Sullivan	As Long As I Live	Great Songs From The Cotton Club by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler	Stash
Ella Fitzgerald	As Long As I Live	Ella Swings Lightly	Verve

Ishmael Reed, Unreconstructed & Not Post-Black!

Show description for Sunday 2/12/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist, Ishmael Reed returns to New Day Jazz. His most recent novel, his first in over a decade, is Juice! A new book of essays, Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, is the first collection of its kind by a leading African-American intellectual. Mr. Reed's online magazine, Konch, published it's latest issue this month.

http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Miles Davis	Directions 1	Directions	Columbia
	Miles Davis	Side Car 2	Circle In The Round	Columbia
	Miles Davis	Water Babies	Water Babies	Columbia
	Joe Henderson	Escapade	Our Thing	Blue Note
	Joe Henderson	Caribbean Fire Dance	Mode For Joe	Blue Note
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	Randy Weston	Samba Bassa	African Nite	Inner City
	Randy Weston	Niger Mambo	African Cookbook	Atlantic
	Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)	Pots	Into The Hot	Impulse
	Cecil Talyor	Tales (8 Whisps)	Unit Structures	Blue Note
	Carmen McRae	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	Live At Sugarhill	Time
	Carmen McRae	I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Live At Sugarhill	Time
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	Cassandra Wilson	I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Blue Skies	JMT
	Cassandra Wilson	Shall We Dance	Blue Skies	JMT
	Charles Mingus featuring Honey Gordon	Strollin'	Mingus Dynasty	Columbia
	Charles Mingus	Song With Orange	Mingus Dynasty	Columbia
	Gil Evans & Steve Lacy	Orange WasThe Color OF Her Dress, Then Blue Silk	Paris Blues	Owl
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	Kenny Drew	If You Could See Me Now	Dark Beauty	Inner City
	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
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	Kenny Drew	All Souls Here (excerpt)	Dark Beauty	Inner City

African American Writers & Classical Tradition

Show description for Sunday 4/3/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon on the 5 o'clock hour we are joined by James Tatum (pictured above, left), professor emeritus of classics at Dartmouth, to discuss his most recent work, co-authored with William W. Cook (above, right), professor emeritus of English and African American studies at Dartmouth, African American Writers and Classical Tradition.

"This book is a magisterial treatment of sophisticated Black literary artists who deployed the deep and rich resources of Greek and Latin classical texts. The complex phenomenon of Afro-classicism is laid bare for all to apprehend and appreciate!" - Cornel West, Princeton University

"Traditionally, African American literature has been treated like an orphan, shifted from one special-interest home to another where only a few can get that extra serving of porridge. Rarely has the genre been treated as seriously as by Cook and Tatum. Knowing them, I'm sure that this excellent book, African American Writers and Classical Tradition, is the result of many hours of deliberation. They debunk for all time that African American literature is monotraditional." - Ishmael Reed

New Day Jazz

Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely.

Genre

Jazz

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	William Parker	I'm So Proud / Ya He Yey Ya	I Plan To Stay A Believer	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Earth	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Pahos	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu	Sacred Place (Reprise)	Chiaroscuro	ECM
	Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu	Two Miniatures	Chiaroscuro	ECM
	Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu	Postlude	Chiaroscuro	ECM
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	The Band with Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy	The Last Waltz	Warner Brothers
	James Carter	Layin' In The Cut	Layin' In The Cut	Atlantic
	Odean Pope	Blues	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Michael Bisio	Alabama	Travel Music	michaelbisio.com
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	Abbey Lincoln with The Staple Singers	The Music Is The Magic	Devil's Got Your Tongue	Verve
	Abbey Lincoln	Bird Alone	You Gotta Pay The Band	Verve
	Ornette Coleman	Word For Bird	In All Languages	Harmolodic-Verve
	Ornette Coleman	Space Church (Continous Services)	In All Languages	Harmolodic-Verve
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Bleed	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Ultima Thule	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
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	Darius Jones	Meekness	Man'ish Boy	AUM-Fidelity
	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles
	Bob Dylan & The Band	Bessie Smith	The Basement Tapes

An Exchange with Ishmael Reed, August 4, 2010

Ishmael:

cornel west criticizes obama for not being mlk jr.more evidence that
"progressives" and their front men are out to destroy obama just as
they did humphrey,carter,etc.they're staying home and pouting will
lead to rep.victory and a corporate plant plain victory in 2012.then you
can forget about ss.medicaid,welfare,etc. all because of progressives'
ego.

Justin:

West, and the like, are prodding this country into a situation not unlike that of Germany's Weimar, just before the rise of the Nazi Party. The left, divided against itself, and unable to consolidate a cohesive agenda around issues that garnered a broad base of support, caved in, leading to the rise of the most criminal and reactionary elements in the country, namely, Hitler. They, too, had massive corporate support in the media. Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice all remained illegally invested in companies that profited from the wars they started, violating domestic and international laws. Now the papers of record, that acted like cheerleaders for the Bush admin. to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, wish to publicly humiliate Waters & Rangel. Race is the issue the G.O.P. wishes to use to light their cross on the White House lawn. Charismatics like West and his brethren in the hallowed hall of the cathode rays ought best turn their attentions to the issues that united the otherwise disparate groups that elected Obama in the first place, instead of playing such facile games of comparison.

Desmangles

Desmangles



Let me bring some relief to my name,
famous for hiding runaway slaves
and future kings, sons of Europe,
whose marriage, arranged by Laveau,
brought stock to the fortunes of Creoles
and voodoo tyrants alike.

Let me display the roots and tethered vines,
the fetid swamp which covers this secret
with protoplasm, and basalt theory.
Wreckage from a promise kept,
beneath the fire of the fortaleza,
the villa of inquisitional escapees
mattering with Dahomey chiefs,
the ouster of Napoleon,
and the coinage of Négritude,
Césaire's notebooks, leaves
on the brackish ponds of my namesake.

And just below the freedom
of a million castles burned,
a slave masters whips drys
in the window of a museum,
near the blouse of my Corrina.

For a Bluesman's pluck and dash,
a railroad capsizes. The iron rails
of a ship going nowhere
in particular except home.

There, my swamp secret begins,
in the foliage of this poem.

The first breath
in a long song unsung.