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September 3, 2019: "Laura Flanders, Solutions-Based Journalism, and Power To, From, and Of The People!"





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    • This week's INTERVIEW is journalist, interviewer, podcaster, and shows-host, LAURA FLANDERS!
    • PlusFreedomWalker gets MINDFUL ALL UP IN YOUR GRILL, with a special Mindful Museum segment. Àṣẹ, àṣẹ! And beetle shares some truth-to-power from an episode of The Laura Flanders Show.





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    THE INTERVIEW



    LAURA FLANDERS




    Laura Flanders. Photo courtesy of Lauraflander.org.



    Laura Flanders | The Laura Flanders Show leads the field in new economy media, reporting on the social critics, artists, activists, and entrepreneurs who are building tomorrow’s world today. While mainstream media looks for ways the world is falling apart, the Laura Flanders Show brings us stories that will piece it back together — better. Since 2008, The Laura Flanders Show has reached 5.3 million viewers on YouTube (over 150,000 people every month). The program is syndicated in the US on KCET/LINKtv and Free Speech TV for a combined reach of some 74 million homes. https://lauraflanders.org/about/






    Resources & Recommendations




    "The Laura Flanders Show is award-winning popular media education featuring field reports and in-depth interviews with forward-thinking people, in order to shift power from the few to the many, and create radical change."



    Multimedia




    "Housing as a Human Right." The Laura Flanders Show, June 23, 2019. [26:46]  The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and victories in the campaign for green, affordable public housing.  Featured Guests:  Cea Weaver, Campaign Coordinator, Upstate Downstate Housing Alliance  Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania  Anita Long, Volunteer, CASA - Community Action for Safe Apartments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYarSRfLUI



    "New Justice: A World Beyond Prisons." The Laura Flanders Show, August 6, 2019. [26:46]  Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the land of the free? Sustained campaigns for change are beginning to pay off. At the community level, it turns out that a whole lot of people and places already make peace without cops. Today, we imagine a world without prisons. It may be closer than we think.  Featured Guests:  Esteban Kelly, Executive Director, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives & Founder and Core Trainer, AORTA  Kenyon Farrow, Senior Editor, TheBody.com  Kerbie Joseph, Community Organizer, ANSWER (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism) & The Audre Lorde Project.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=4ZKwG7zplqc






    Articles & Websites



    The Diggers | were a group of Protestant radicals in England, sometimes seen as forerunners of modern anarchism, and also associated with agrarian socialism and Georgism. Gerrard Winstanley's followers were known as True Levellers in 1649 and later became known as Diggers, because of their attempts to farm on common land.
    Their original name came from their belief in economic equality based upon a specific passage in the Acts of the Apostles. The Diggers tried (by "levelling" land) to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small, egalitarian rural communities. They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

    During the middle and late 1960s, the San Francisco Diggers (who took their name from the original English Diggers) opened stores which simply gave away their stock; provided free food, medical care, transport and temporary housing; they also organised free music concerts and works of political art. Some of their happenings included the Death of Money Parade, Intersection Game, Invisible Circus, and Death of Hippie/Birth of Free.
    The Diggers were a radical community-action group of community activists and Improv actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco. Their politics were such that they have sometimes been categorised as "left-wing". More precisely, they were "community anarchists" who blended a desire for freedom with a consciousness of the community in which they lived. They were closely associated with and shared a number of members with a guerrilla theatre group named the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Like the original English Diggers, they envisioned a society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. Actor Peter Coyote was a founding member of the Diggers.
    The American Diggers were echoed in the 1960s in the UK (see Alternative Society and Sid Rawle). Since the revival of anarchism in the British anti-roads movement, the Diggers have been celebrated as precursors of land squatting and communalism. April 1, 1999, on the 350th anniversary of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers' occupation of the English Civil War on the same hill, The Land Is Ours organised a rally, then occupied land at St. George's Hill near Weybridge, Surrey. In 2011, an annual festival began in Wigan to celebrate the Diggers. In 2012, the second annual festival proved a great success and the sixth took place in 2016. In Wellingborough, a festival has also been held annually since 2011. Bolton Diggers were established in 2013 and have promoted "the commons" as a foil to privatisation. They have established community food gardens, cooperatives and the Common Wealth café, a pay-as-you-feel café using surplus food from supermarkets.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers#The_San_Francisco_Diggers


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_socialism
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hill_(historian)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers#Further_reading
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers#Influence
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers#Influence_on_literature_and_popular_culture
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers#Iver,_Buckinghamshire
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers#Writings
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War#The_First_English_Civil_War
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_simple
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrard_Winstanley
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformist
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_England
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Coyote
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_order





    "The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth by Lewis Henry Berens." Lewis Henry Berens, Gutenberg.org. January, 2006. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17480





    The Digger Archives | is an ongoing Web project to preserve and present the history of the anarchist guerrilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture of the Sixties and whose actions and ideals inspired (and continue to inspire) a generation (of all ages) to create models of Free Association. http://www.diggers.org/overview.htm






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    FreedomWalker's Sources and Credits




    COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO


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    THE SPRUCE


    • Thespruce.com





    FREEDOMWALKER'S MUSIC NOTES



    English Translation / English Lyrics to Band Maid "Dice"
    Japaneseonesroplyric.blogspot.com

    You should be knowing
    that situation you got
    Backtracking or something like that isn't possible anymore
    Your status, worthiness and even the time
    You cried out in a loud voice
    I won't wait for you
    That's a ruthless, unsentimental, and sorrowful reality
    Why don't you give it a shot
    A commonly seen story by everybody
    Thinking with a narrow mind
    Just for whatever match the interest
    And the answer will be the same, ready?
    It’s all right now
    Let's come back here
    Welcome to my home!
    Candy or whip, which one do you like??
    If you've decided, rise up!!
    From here on, is it bye bye?
    Call me Call me Call me Call me
    I can't make any promise, but
    It's better that nothing, so enjoy time
    I don't care about "Anything!"
    As long I able to do that, I'll try my best!!
    May I take your order?
    My mind cannot erase the heartache
    So everyone else, always carries something on their back
    Trouble, condolences, living life
    I've got a feeling
    Meaningless time is just for nobody
    Even dreams are connected to something
    If you're looking for mistakes
    It doesn’t matter anyway, ready?
    Seize the moment!
    Let's come back here
    Welcome to my home!
    Sweet or bitter, each one’s own
    Wanting to play’s childish
    Well then, is it now bye bye?
    Call me Call me Call me Call me
    Don't smile when you try to be strong
    Even tears can turn into rainbow
    Surely today will be mundane too
    Listen to your voice, it will change
    May I take your order?
    I've got a feeling
    This is just the usual scenery that the crowd seen
    We can do what we like respectively
    It’s okay to get carried away
    But don’t miss the wave, ready?
    One moment of pain
    Ten moment of delight
    Look for a reason, rise your face
    Alright, let's get started
    Advance or retreat, that's depends on what you think
    Wining or losing
    The dice is already thrown
    Beat out from this imperfect situation
    Just for me
    Seize the moment!
    Let's come back here
    Welcome to my home!
    Candy or whip, which one do you like??
    If you've decided, rise up!!
    From here on, is it bye bye?
    Call me Call me Call me Call me
    I can't make any promise, but
    It's better that nothing, so enjoy time
    I don't care about "Anything!"
    As long I able to do that, I'll try my best!!
    May I take your order?





      MINDFUL MUSEUM


      The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) - IMDb.  Director: Jack Arnold While out on the ocean with his wife, Scott Carey's boat drifts through a strange mist that leave a metallic residue covering his body. He thinks nothing of it at the time but within a few weeks he begins to notice that he is losing weight. A visit to the doctor also confirms that he is getting shorter. As he gets smaller and smaller, doctors determine that his exposure to insecticides followed by what must have been a radioactive mist has caused a genetic mutation. The manage to stop his reversal, but only temporarily. Eventually, he is small to the point where encounters with the household cat and later a spider become potentially deadly situations.



      • Beforeworthless.com - "The Little Guide to Starting Small"
      • Buffer.com - "Make it big by starting small"
      • Ken Mogi - "Awakening your IKIGAI" 












      beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links



      PRE-INTERVIEW




      Multimedia




      1. [First ten minutes aired] "Housing as a Human Right." The Laura Flanders Show, June 23, 2019. [26:46]  The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and victories in the campaign for green, affordable public housing.  Featured Guests:  Cea Weaver, Campaign Coordinator, Upstate Downstate Housing Alliance  Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania  Anita Long, Volunteer, CASA - Community Action for Safe Apartments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYarSRfLUI






      Resources & Articles




      • Lauraflanders.org











      BLACKGIRLMAGIC:




      Ella Andall. Photo from: Mytrinilime.com






      ELLA ANDALL



      Andall was born in Grenada—one dare not ask the date—and moved to Trinidad when she was eight or nine. She found Trinidad extremely different from Grenada. For the first time, she encountered a discomfort with “blackness”, and distrust of anything “too African”. But she had been raised in a home and a family that had inherited the West African traditions of her ancestors, and she studiously resisted any attempts to remove her from those traditions, even refusing to sing in school choirs where she would be made to sing differently. Andall is an olorisha, or Orisha devotee. It is a way of life that celebrates the ancestors and the divine in nature, with various aspects and forces of the natural world represented in the Orisha, who are each a manifestation of God, or Olodumare. . . .
      https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-86/ella-andall-earth-music





      Ella Andall. Photo from: "Waiting for You (Trinidad & Tobago, 1973)."




      Multimedia



      "Ella Andall - Waiting For You (Trinidad & Tobago 1973)." Üllar Siir, Youtube. March 25, 2018. [4:40] Shorty Records Written, arranged and produced by Lord Shorty Accompanied by Shorty's Vibrations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJEineOqNnA

      "Ella Andall-Ogun Baba Dey."  Mercedez TheFmGirl, Youtube. June 24, 2010. [3:44] Ella Andall is one of the most talented female Orisha singers in Trinidad and Tobago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2jeMCcRZs

      "Wole Wole Ku Bani- Sang by Ella Andall for Oshun." Mercedez TheFmGirl, Youtube. April 11, 2017. [3:10] Oshun is the essence of love, sweetness and good cheer, beauty and flowing joy. Oshun is represented as a beautiful, charming and coquettish young woman, often with long flowing dreadlocks. . . . https://youtu.be/9xY9IO3M-gI

      "Ella Andall -Ogun Onirea." Mercedez TheFmGirl, Youtube. June 24, 2010. [3:17] ELLA ANDALL has worked consistently over the past four decades to establish herself as an artiste of international stature. Considered by many as a Caribbean Queen of Song - a chantuelle supreme, a high priestess of African-Caribbean music, Ella's journey is one of power and potency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B2zHm2ZLAM

      "Ella Andall Oshun Trinidad and Tobago." Omoorisha07, Youtube. March 8, 2009. [6:20] Ella Andall singing for Oshun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odvIJK-bPxk

      ALBUM: "Sango Ba Ba Wa." Ella Andall, Youtube. [24 videos, last updated June 2, 2019]. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nyCSakRyTi5wzimyyvIzEcvRkL6x1_uhI

      "Ella Andall - Missing Generation." IsDePanInMe, Youtube. December 29, 2010. [6:36] Audio version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smuv3_6sNfo

      "Ella Andall - Rhythm of A People."  IsDePanInMe, Youtube. January 14, 2011. [4:23] Audio version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWwmA-PlFws

      "Ella Andall - Bring Down The Power." IsDePanInMe, Youtube. December 29, 2010. [4:37] Audio version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DQpfo65ctI

      "Ella Andall - Festival Song." IsDePanInMe, Youtube. October 19, 2012. [4:37] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enCI7DsDWnA

      "Ella Andall - 'Black Woman'." Foreignmovies, Youtube. August 3, 2009. [5:39] 'Black Woman' is the international black woman's anthem....performed by one of the greatest vocal champions of the African diaspora - Ella Andall of Trinidad and Tobago. Everything about this song is perfect...the plaintive cries of Ella Andall, the rich instrumentals, the haunting male back-up vocals....the MESSAGE to the black woman of love, honour, and redemption.....Listen, and enjoy.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBQz0Kh71-Q

      "YEMOJA(THE MOTHER OF All WATERS WHETHER ITS SWEET/SALT/FRESH)." Nanthaniel Lewis, October 15, 2017. [10:26] Yemoja is an orisha and the mother of all orishas she have given birth to 14 Yoruba gods and goddesses. Yemoja is often depicted as a mermaid, and is associated with the moon, water, and feminine mysteries. She is the protector of women. She governs everything pertaining women; childbirth, conception, parenting, children safety, love, and healing. She oversees deep secrets, ancient wisdom, the moon, sea shells, and the collective unconscious. According to myth, when her waters broke, it caused a great flood creating rivers and streams and the first mortal humans were created from her womb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQ69fZviLI  [The singer is Ella Andall]





      Ella Andall. Photo from: "Ella Andall - Missing Generation"


      Articles & Resources



      "Ella Andall: Discography." Discogs.com, retireved August 4, 2019. https://www.discogs.com/artist/986196-Ella-Andall

      "Ella Andall: earth music." Caroline Taylor, Caribbean-beat.com. July/August, 2007. https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-86/ella-andall-earth-music

      "Ella Andall: spirit dancer." Caroline Taylor, Carolinetaylor.info. May 20, 2013. https://carolinetaylor.info/2013/05/20/ella-andall-spirit-dancer/

      "Ella Andall." Ronald C. Emrit, Bestoftrinidad.com. http://www.bestoftrinidad.com/profiles/andall.html

      "Ella Andall Alive." Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, February 21, 2014. www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.378949.678993f700


      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Traditional_African_religions
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Trinidad_and_Tobago
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_syncretism
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_Baptist
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_Baptist/Shouter_Liberation_Day




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      AFRO-CUBANGIRLMAGIC:






      By Ibrahim Arce (Narcy Studios photographer), most likely - Narcy Studios, Montserrat y Empedrado, Havana, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63756688




      CELIA CRUZ




      Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003), known simply and professionally as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and the most popular Latin artist of the 20th century. Cruz was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa", 

      "La Guarachera de Cuba", as well as "The Queen of Latin Music".
      Throughout her career, Celia Cruz interpreted and internationally popularized tropical rhythms such as Son, Guaguancó, Rumba, Guaracha and Bolero. However, the genre that led to stardom was Salsa.



      Celia Cruz and La Sonora Matancera.
      https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:
      Celia_Cruz_y_La_Sonora_Matancera.jpg#/media/File:Celia_Cruz_y_La_Sonora_Matancera.jpg


      She began her career in her native Cuba, earning recognition as a vocalist of the popular musical group Sonora Matancera, a musical association that lasted fifteen years (1950-1965). In the 1960s, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Cruz left her native country, becoming one of the symbols and spokespersons of the Cuban community in exile. Cruz continued her career, first in Mexico, and then in the United States, the country that she took as her definitive residence. In the 1970s she was fully incorporated into the Salsa genre, especially after her musical association with other artists of the genre within the Fania All-Stars. During the last years of her career, Cruz had already become a myth of Latin American music. Her constant evolution in the world of music, helped her to remain in force practically until her death and to conquer new generations of followers. Her career formed an invaluable legacy and inescapable reference for future generations who discover in her a powerful and prolific source of inspiration. Some of the songs performed by her are part of the cultural heritage of Latin America. Among the most famous are Quimbara, Burundanga, La Vida Es Un Carnaval and La negra tiene tumbao, among many others. Her musical legacy is made up of a total of 37 studio albums, in addition to many other special recordings, records in live or associations with other singers. In her career she was awarded numerous prizes, recognitions and distinctions, including two Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards. In addition to her prolific career in music, Cruz also made some punctual interventions as an actress in movies and telenovelas.
      Celia Cruz also made famous the expression ¡Azúcar! (Sugar!) Which she adopted and it remained in the collective memory as her identifying phrase, which she shouted as a carnival ad inciting fun. With a unique style and an iconic image of unsurpassed attractiveness thanks to a charismatic and musical talent that is difficult to replicate, Celia Cruz is considered an authentic symbol of Latin culture worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz




      Photo from: "Women’s History NJ: Queen of Salsa Celia Cruz." Patrick Lombardi, Bestofnj.com. March 28, 2019.




      • In 1976, Cruz was part of the documentary Salsa de Leon Gast, which talks about the international Latino culture.
      • In 1987, Cruz was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was also recognized with a star on Boulevard Amador Bendoyán in Caracas, Venezuela. She also has a figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum.
      • In 1989, the 5212 Celiacruz, an asteroid belonging to the Asteroid belt, was baptized in her honor.[11]
      • In 1991, Miami, Florida named Calle Ocho as Celia Cruz Way in her honor.
      • In 1994, she received the National Endowment for the Arts award from the then President Bill Clinton, which is the highest recognition granted by the United States government to an artist.
      • On October 25, 1997, the city of San Francisco officially declared that date as "Celia Cruz Day".
      • In 1999, Cruz was inducted into the International Music Hall.
      • In 2003, a music school opened in the Bronx, called Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music. Pedro Knight visited this school before his death to meet the students and share stories about his life.
      • In February 2004, her last album, published posthumously, won a Lo Nuestro Award as best salsa album of the year and two Latin Grammy awards.
      • On June 4, 2004, the heavily Cuban-American community of Union City, New Jersey heralded its annual Cuban Day Parade by dedicating its new Celia Cruz Park (also known as Celia Cruz Plaza), which features a sidewalk star in her honor, at 31st Street and Bergenline Avenue, with Cruz's widower, Pedro Knight, present. There are four other similar dedications to Cruz around the world.
      • In 2005 her biography Celia: Mi vida was published, based on more than 500 hours of interviews with the Mexican journalist Ana Cristina Reymundo.
      • The journalist and TV presenter Cristina Saralegui planned to take the story of her life to the cinema and the American actress Whoopi Goldberg, admirer of the singer, expressed her interest in representing her, but the project was cancelled.
      • In 2005, the National Museum of American History, administered by the Smithsonian Institute and located in Washington, D.C., inaugurated ¡Azúcar! , an exhibition that celebrates the life and music of Celia Cruz. The exhibition highlights important moments in Cruz's life and career through photographs, personal documents, costumes, videos and music.
      • Between 2007 and 2008, a musical based on the life of Celia Cruz, was presented at the headquarters of Off-Broadway New World Stages. The play won four HOLA Awards 2008 from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors.
      • In 2011, Celia Cruz was honored by the United States Postal Service with a commemorative stamp. The label was one of a group of five labels in honor of the greats of Latin music, which also include Selena, Tito Puente, Carmen Miranda and Carlos Gardel.
      • In 2013, Google honored Celia Cruiz with a Google Doodle.
      • In 2013, the singer Jennifer Lopez honored Cruz with her presentation at the American Music Awards ceremony. The singers Yuri, La India, Maluma and Aymée Nuviola did the same at the Latin American Music Awards.
      • In 2015, the television networks RCN Televisión and Telemundo, made the Celia a TV serie, based on the life of Celia Cruz. Celia was played by the actresses Jeimy Osorio and Aymée Nuviola and counted on the voice of Patty Padilla.
      • In 2019, Angélique Kidjo released a tribute album to Cruz, entitled CELIA, including songs spanning all of Celia's Cruz career reinvented with an Afrobeat feel. It features Tony Allen (musician), Meshell Ndegeocello, and the Gangbé Brass Band.
      • Cruz holds three Honoris Causa doctorates from three universities in the United States: Yale University, Florida International University and Miami University.
      • Her extravagant costumes, which included several colored wigs, tight sequined dresses and very high heels, became so famous that one of them was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.
      • Cruz's star has expanded into Union City's "Walk of Fame", as new marble stars are added each spring to honor Latin entertainment and media personalities, such as merengue singer Joseíto Mateo, salsa singer La India, Cuban musician Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Cuban tenor Beny Moré, Tito Puente, Spanish language television news anchor Rafael Pineda, salsa pioneer Johnny Pacheco, singer/bandleader Gilberto Santa Rosa and music promoter Ralph Mercado.







      Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images, from: "Celia Cruz." Bloomsburypublishing.com, retrieved August 18, 2019.




      Multimedia



      "Celia Cruz canta un Bembe titulado Yemaya." Ilovesalsa17, Youtube. October 11, 2011. [2:39] es una gran cancion de la guarachera de Cuba Celia I Love Celia. https://youtu.be/ygqGP5HV8XI


      "Celia Cruz - Elegua (Jose Marquez Remix)." Jose Marquez, Youtube. February 19, 2010. [9:20]  https://youtu.be/bhNmUbqRav0




      PLAYLIST: "Salsa Santeria." Osvaldo Sanchez Youtube. [34 videos, last updated January 18, 2019]  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ6N6xi_1l7u6fuSJAivveCywd-3COPjg








      Photo from: "TRIBUTE TO THE GUARACHERA DE CUBA: THE QUEEN CELIA CRUZ." Repeatingisnalds.com, March 21, 2014.



      Articles & Resources





      1. "Women’s History NJ: Queen of Salsa Celia Cruz." Patrick Lombardi, Bestofnj.com. March 28, 2019. https://bestofnj.com/features/monthly-observances/womens-history-month/womens-history-nj-queen-salsa-celia-cruz/
      2. "TRIBUTE TO THE GUARACHERA DE CUBA: THE QUEEN CELIA CRUZ." Repeatingisnalds.com, March 21, 2014. https://repeatingislands.com/2014/03/21/tribute-to-the-guarachera-de-cuba-the-queen-celia-cruz/
      3. "Celia Cruz." Bloomsburypublishing.com, retrieved August 18, 2019. https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/person?docid=person_celiaCruz





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      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucum%C3%AD_language
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Cuba
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Cuba#African_heritage
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Knight
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_music
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora_Matancera
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Puente













      Music Playlists




      First Hour Music and Playlists:

      1. The Clash: "Lost in the Supermarket"
      2. The Main Squeeze: "Rule the World (Cover)"





      Second Hour Music and Playlists:

      1. Brass Against, ft. Sophia Urista: "Wake Up (Rage Against The Machine cover)"
      2. Band Maid: "Dice"








      The Black Meta!
      Live and streaming at Radiokingston.org
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      Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m.




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