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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

November 19, 2019: "What Hasn't Killed Us. . . ."




As always, YOUR BLACK META is bringing MAXIMUM AWESOME! Music, Meta, and Mindful; local news and upcoming events; opportunities for engaging with and supporting local communities!

Art by Will Lyle, of Thorneater.


This week, YOUR META's pleased and excited to do an in-depth INTERVIEW with SUSAN STESSIN-COHN, author of In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831! Today's journey also features some brief meta on Nina Simone and her art! Plus,music by Casandra Wilson!

 Today's show will be ESPECIALLY BLACK-TACULAR and META-LICIOUS!



--Your Black Meta!

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RECALLED

(As of November 4, 2019)

Potential Listeria Contamination of Mann Brand Products Sold in U.S. and Canada

Click for the notice and full list of recalled products or go to https://mannpackingproductlist11-2019.us/



Salinas, CA. – November 3, 2019 – Mann Packing Co., Inc. (Mann) announced today the voluntary recall of a series of vegetable products sold to select retailers in the United States and Canada. The voluntary recall is a response to a notification by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency of a potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. To date, public health officials have not reported any illness associated with these products.
Mann Packing is issuing this recall out of an abundance of caution. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. Mann Packing will continue to work closely with the authorities to investigate the issue.

 The recalled products have “Best If Used By” date of October 11, 2019 to November 16, 2019. Please see below for a full list of affected products as well as product images available.


For any inquiries or comments, all consumers are welcome to call the 24 hour customer service line at 1-844-927-0707 or email Mann Packing Co., Inc. at consumers@mannpacking.com




Multimedia


"listeria disease report presentation" Jess K, Youtube. November 20, 2015. [10:41] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-aEUo2dIuQ

Table of Contents:

00:00 - Listeriosis (Listeria)
00:03 - What is it?
00:44 - History
01:23 - Listeria monocytogenes
01:53 - Listeria monocytogenes bacteria
02:16 - Strains
02:34 - Prevalence of bacterium
03:30 - Incidence and prevalence
04:00 - Transmission
04:04 - Pathogenesis
04:07 - Transmission
04:33 - Pathogenesis
04:51 - symptoms
05:31 - diagnosis
06:14 - Who’s at risk
07:04 - meningitis
07:34 - encephalitis
07:48 - Melon Outbreak of 2011
08:10 - Blue bell outbreak of 2015
08:51 - prevention
09:45 - treatment
10:28 - The good news
10:37 - References



  1. "What is Listeria Infection? (Foodborne Bacterial Illness)." Healthery, Youtube. June 2018. [3:02] What is Listeria Infection? (Foodborne Bacterial Illness) - Overview, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention. Learn more: https://healthery.com/health/listeria...  Listeria is an infection caused by a bacterium called Listeria monocytogenes. The bacterium is found in animal feces, soil, and water. It is a food-borne illness that produces diarrhea, muscle aches, and fever. In severe infections, it affects the brain and causes meningitis, headaches, convulsions and can even lead to death.   It affects people that are immunocompromised, the elderly and pregnant women and their unborn children. Healthy people do not suffer from listeria infection but it can be fatal to unborn babies and neonates. There is a better prognosis if the disease is diagnosed early and the person infected began on antibiotics. Learn more about Listeria infection from this video from healthery.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvLT5e31KPQ
  2. "Listeria monocytogenes- animated quick review." Rewise MD, Youtube. March 17, 2019. [3:57] Fmgsindia.com provides free, useful resources for medical students preparing for postgraduate entrance Examinations. Check our website for more information.Short, comprehensive video lectures designed to integrate knowledge of the basic sciences to clinical applications and context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pu1Z1uXOI4
  3. "Listeria monocytogenes, a unique model in infection biology." COSSART Lab, Youtube. December 6, 2016.[6:55] Video from Pascale Cossart laboratory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAPOa_QXAo






Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites



  1. "More Than 100 Different Types Of Vegetable Products Have Been Recalled Over Listeria Concerns. They were sold under labels like Del Monte And Trader Joe's." Kristin Salaky, Delish.com. November 5, 2019. https://www.delish.com/food-news/a29701111/mann-packing-c-recall-vegatables/
  2. "Before Listeria Sets In, Mann Recalls Over 100 Of Its Vegetable Products." Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com. November 4, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/11/04/before-listeria-sets-in-mann-recalls-over-100-of-its-vegetable-products/#6d7ee2d22613
  3. "More than 100 vegetable products recalled for listeria concerns." Allen Kim, Cnn.com. Updated November 4, 2019. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/us/mann-vegetable-recall-trnd/index.html [includes a video, "What is Listeria?"--beetle]
  4. "VEGETABLE RECALL 2019: MORE THAN 100 PRODUCTS RECALLED OVER LISTERIA CONTAMINATION FEARS." Rosie McCall, Newsweek.com. November 4, 2019. https://www.newsweek.com/vegetable-recall-100-products-listeria-contamination-fears-1469567 [also includes a video, "What is Listeria?"--beetle]
  5. "Veggies Recalled for Possible Listeria Risk. Nov. 4, 2019 -- More than 100 vegetable products sold across the United States and Canada have been recalled for potential listeria contamination." Aaron Gould Sheinin, Webmed.com. November 4, 2019. https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20191104/veggies-recalled-for-possible-listeria-risk









LISTERIOSIS



Signs and symptoms | The disease primarily affects older adults, persons with weakened immune systems, pregnant women, and newborns. Rarely, people without these risk factors can also be affected. A person with listeriosis usually has fever and muscle aches, often preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. Almost everyone who is diagnosed with listeriosis has invasive infection (meaning that the bacteria spread from their intestines to their blood stream or other body sites). Disease may occur as much as two months after eating contaminated food. The symptoms vary with the infected person: High-risk people other than pregnant women: Symptoms can include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions. Pregnant women: Pregnant women typically experience only a mild, flu-like illness. However, infections during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn. Previously healthy people: People who were previously healthy but were exposed to a very large dose of Listeria can develop a non-invasive illness (meaning that the bacteria have not spread into their blood stream or other body sites). Symptoms can include diarrhea and fever. If an animal has eaten food contaminated with Listeria and does not have any symptoms, most experts believe that no tests or treatment are needed, even for people at high risk for listeriosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis#Signs_and_symptoms



Cause | Listeria monocytogenes is ubiquitous in the environment. The main route of acquisition of Listeria is through the ingestion of contaminated food products. Listeria has been isolated from raw meat, dairy products, vegetables, fruit and seafood. Soft cheeses, unpasteurized milk and unpasteurised pâté are potential dangers; however, some outbreaks involving post-pasteurized milk have been reported. Rarely listeriosis may present as cutaneous listeriosis. This infection occurs after direct exposure to L. monocytogenes by intact skin and is largely confined to veterinarians who are handling diseased animals, most often after a listerial abortion. It can be more common in patients with hemochromatosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis#Cause



Bacteremia | should be treated for 2 weeks, meningitis for 3 weeks, and brain abscess for at least 6 weeks. Ampicillin generally is considered antibiotic of choice; gentamicin is added frequently for its synergistic effects. Overall mortality rate is 20–30%; of all pregnancy-related cases, 22% resulted in fetal loss or neonatal death, but mothers usually survive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis#Treatment



Prevention | The main means of prevention is through the promotion of safe handling, cooking and consumption of food. This includes washing raw vegetables and cooking raw food thoroughly, as well as reheating leftover or ready-to-eat foods like hot dogs until steaming hot. Another aspect of prevention is advising high-risk groups such as pregnant women and immunocompromised patients to avoid unpasteurized pâtés and foods such as soft cheeses like feta, Brie, Camembert cheese, and bleu. Cream cheeses, yogurt, and cottage cheese are considered safe. In the United Kingdom, advice along these lines from the Chief Medical Officer posted in maternity clinics led to a sharp decline in cases of listeriosis in pregnancy in the late 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis#Prevention




  • ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeria
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis#2017_United_States_listeriosis_outbreak
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeriosis#2011_United_States_listeriosis_outbreak









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R!SE UP KINGSTON | October 15 Police Commission Rally in City Hall



Multimedia


  1. "R!se Up Kingston Takes Over City Hall for Police Accountability!" [39:26] R!se Up Kingston members, volunteers, supporters, alies, et. al. October 15, 2019. https://www.facebook.com/lisa.lentroyer/posts/2765102680180237
  2. "The Homeless Project: Last Night For Dinner." Rise Up Kingston, Facebook.com. October 12, 2019. [57:34] Live from the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Rise Up Kingston Presents "Housing: A Human Right" Film Screening & Panel. https://www.facebook.com/RiseUpKingston/videos/2213847208907670/







Community organizations to connect, to listen, and to be heard:




  • https://citizenactionny.org/about
  • https://citizenactionny.org/events/venues/7-grand-st-kingston-ny-12401-usa




  • https://kingstontenantsunion.org/
  • https://kingstontenantsunion.org/events/
  • https://kingstontenantsunion.org/news/




  • https://riseupkingston.org/
  • https://riseupkingston.org/blog




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Upcoming Local Events & Demonstrations






CITIZENSHIP CLASSES






From Almanac Weekly:




There will be free U.S. citizenship classes offered every Thursday through November 21. For more information and to register please call 646.342.4177 or 973.698.0205 (se habla español). St. Joseph's Church, 34 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz.







De Almanac Weekly:




Habrá clases gratuitas de ciudadanía estadounidense todos los jueves hasta el 21 de noviembre. Para obtener más información y registrarse, llame al 646.342.4177 o al 973.698.0205 (se habla español). Iglesia de San José, 34 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz.









INTERVIEW


SUSAN STESSIN-COHN



From left to right: beetle, Susan Stessin-Cohn, and FreedomWalker. Photo by Nate Brogan.




Susan Stessin-Cohn | Historian of the Town of New Paltz, NY and author | Former Professor of Social Studies Education at SUNY New Paltz and Director of Education at Historical Huguenot Street








In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831 



In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York's Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831, by Susan Stessin-Cohn.



Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Black Dome Press (September 1, 2016)
Language: English




In Defiance documents 607 fugitives from slavery in the 18th and 19th-century Hudson River Valley region of New York State through the reproduction and transcription of 512 archival newspaper notices for runaway slaves placed by their enslavers or agents. Also included are notices advertising slaves captured, notices advertising slaves for sale, notices offering to purchase slaves, and selected runaway notices from outside the Hudson River Valley region. Nine tables analyze the data in the 512 notices for runaways from Hudson Valley enslavers, and the book includes a glossary, indexes of names, locations, and subjects, 36 illustrations, 5 maps from the 18th and 19th centuries, and a foreword by A.J. Williams-Myers, Black Studies Department, SUNY at New Paltz. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883789834/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0



ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE PUBLISHER, at BLACKDOMEPRESS.COM and at INQUIRING MINDS BOOKSTORES.






OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS



Multimedia Articles & Resources


Welcome to HRVH! Explore digital content from libraries and cultural heritage institutions that document the rich history of New York’s Hudson River Valley. Discover photographs, diaries, correspondence, artwork, newspapers, oral history interviews, and more that contribute to the story of the people, places, and events that make this region exceptional. https://hrvh.org





Photo from HRVH.org: The Missing Chapter.


"The black-white rift stands at the very center of American history. It is the great challenge to which all our deepest aspirations to freedom must rise. If we forget the great stain of slavery that stands at the heart of our country, our history, our experiment-we forget who we are, and we make the great rift deeper and wider."

-Ken Burns


Although the predominant perception of early African Americans in the United States tends to conjure up images of a shackled existence on Southern plantations, the story of the African American presence in Hudson Valley history remains comparatively untold. Just as countless black hands worked the red clay fields of Southern farms, so too did African slaves churn the rich, fertile soils of the New York flats. It remains a hypocrisy in our condemnation of slavery in the South, that we too built our society on the backs of a subjugated people. While New York played a major role in the trading of coffee, sugar, and tobacco, our state also played a crucial role in the trafficking of human life.

It is our obligation and our goal to illuminate the roots of the African American presence in the Mid-Hudson Valley, and to reveal the realities of the critical but subservient role African Americans played in colonial and antebellum society in this region. Through Photographs, Bills of Sale, Last Will and Testaments, Inventories, Vendues, Runaway Slave Notices, Court Cases, Slave Law Codes, Journals, Ledgers, and Correspondences, we can gain a deeper understanding of Slavery in New York in general and of the experiences and fates of specific African Americans. As part of the missing chapter in the book of the African American experience, the stories told here provide a glimpse of the collective heritage some of us seek to find, and that none of us should ever forget. https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/





ALSO OF NOTE. . . .




  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/attitudes-and-stereotypes
  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/death-of-enslaver
  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/ledgers
  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/manumission-act-of-1799
  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/resistance--runaways-and-the-k
  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/slavery
  • https://omeka.hrvh.org/exhibits/show/missing-chapter/the-negro-question









FreedomWalker's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links





COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO


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THE SPRUCE

  • Thespruce.com









beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links




Your WEEKLY DOSE of

BLACKGIRLMAGIC!



Nina Simone. Photo by Vernon Merritt III. Retrieved from Pitchfork.com.



NINA SIMONE


She was one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, an icon of American music. She was the consummate musical storyteller, a griot as she would come to learn, who used her remarkable talent to create a legacy of liberation, empowerment, passion, and love through a magnificent body of works. She earned the moniker ‘High Priestess of Soul’ for she could weave a spell so seductive and hypnotic that the listener lost track of time and space as they became absorbed in the moment. She was who the world would come to know as Nina Simone. When Nina Simone died on April 21, 2003, she left a timeless treasure trove of musical magic spanning over four decades from her first hit, the 1959 Top 10 classic “I Loves You Porgy,” to “A Single Woman,” the title cut from her one and only 1993 Elektra album. While thirty-three years separate those recordings, the element of honest emotion is the glue that binds the two together – it is that approach to every piece of work that became Nina’s uncompromising musical trademark. By the end of her life, Nina was enjoying an unprecedented degree of recognition. Her music was enjoyed by the masses due to the CD revolution, discovery on the Internet, and exposure through movies and television. Nina had sold over one million CDs in the last decade of her life, making her a global catalog best-seller. No one website can fully explore the many nuances and flavors that made up the more than 40 original albums in the Nina Simone library. This site and accompanying radio station contain many of Nina’s finest works. However, we might not have had the chance to witness the breathtaking range of material Nina could cover if she hadn’t taken the path she did. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on February 21st, 1933, Nina’s prodigious talent as a musician was evident early on when she started playing piano by ear at the age of three. . . . www.ninasimone.com/bio/




Multimedia


  1. "Mississippi Goddam." Nina Simone, Youtube. November 7, 2014. [5:30] Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment. Mississippi Goddam · Nina Simone  The Very Best Of Nina Simone 1967-1972 - Sugar In My Bowl  ℗ Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music. https://youtu.be/WoLWMv9E7iU
  2. "Nina Simone: To Be Young, Gifted and Black." Nina Simone, Youtube. February 21, 2013. [9:21] "To Be Young, Gifted & Black" by Nina Simone (includes interview) Recording session: Live at Morehouse College in Atlanta, June 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk
  3. "Nina Simone: Pirate Jenny (1969)." For the Love of Music, Youtube. March 13, 2012. [6:42] I looked all over and couldn't find Nina Simone's version on YouTube so I here it is. Absolutely the best version of this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyUruSCMhu8
  4. "Nina Simone: An Artist's Duty." Nina Simone, Youtube. February 21, 2013. [0:51] Release [sic] by the Estate of Nina Simone. https://youtu.be/99V0mMNf5fo
  5. '“I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life.”' Lilian Terry, Blankonblank.org. [5:47] Lilian Terry had a national radio show in Italy–everyone from Ray Charles to Duke Ellington appeared on her show. And there was one person she always wanted to interview: Nina Simone. She finally got a chance in 1968 thanks to drummer Max Roach. https://blankonblank.org/interviews/nina-simone-shock-feeling-good-daughter-martin-luther-king-aint-got-no/
  6. "Nina Simone - To Be Young, Gifted and Black (Audio)." Nina Simone, Youtube. February 5, 2013. [2:51] Audio by Nina Simone performing To Be Young, Gifted and Black. (C) 2013 Sony Music Entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGiKYqk0gY
  7. "Mississippi Goddam (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York/1964)." Nina Simone, Youtube. [4:56] Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group. Mississippi Goddam (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York/1964) · Nina Simone In Concert  ℗ 1964 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., Released under license to Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tHYGfRot5w
  8. Nina Simone on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-FRbWianyv9q-Ly9whFQQ
  9. Nina Simone on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7G1GBhoKtEPnP86X2PvEYO






Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites



  1. "A Raised Voice: How Nina Simone turned the movement into music." Claudia Roth Pierpont, Thenyewyorker.com. August 3, 2014. "My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a song she had written about what she called “four Negro women” to a young, homogeneously white, and transfixed crowd. “And one of the women’s hair,” she instructed, brushing her hand lightly across her own woolly Afro, “is like mine.” Every performance of “Four Women” caught on film (as here) or disk is different. Sometimes Simone coolly chants the first three women’s parts—the effect is of resigned weariness—and at other times, as on this particular night, she gives each woman an individual, sharply dramatized voice. All four have names. Aunt Sarah is old, and her strong back has allowed her only “to take the pain inflicted again and again.” Sephronia’s yellow skin and long hair are the result of her rich white father having raped her mother—“Between two worlds I do belong”—and Sweet Thing, a prostitute, has tan skin and a smiling bravado that seduced at least some of the eager Dutch listeners into the mistake of smiling, too. And then Simone hit them with the last and most resolutely up to date of the women, improbably named Peaches. “My skin is brown,” she growled ferociously, “my manner is tough. I’ll kill the first mother I see. ’Cause my life has been rough.” (One has to wonder what the Dutch made of killing that “mother.”) If Simone’s song suggests a history of black women in America, it is also a history of long-suppressed and finally uncontainable anger. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/raised-voice
  2. "Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again." Nytimes.com. June 21, 2015. The feminist writer Germaine Greer once declared: “Every generation has to discover Nina Simone. She is evidence that female genius is real. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/movies/nina-simones-time-is-now-again.html
  3. "Nina Simone." Natelegé Whaley, Mic.com. May 2, 2019. Nina Simone was a singer, musician and a freedom fighter during the civil rights movement. Often called the “high priestess of soul,” she was a black musical genius unafraid of tackling politics, but this meant her life was filled with difficulty. She risked her popularity at the height of her career for the liberation of the African diaspora. There weren’t many spaces made for Simone, but she transformed every space she touched. She also inspired many musical artists, from Aretha Franklin to Lauryn Hill to Mary J. Blige. https://www.mic.com/articles/186976
  4. "Why the Color of Nina Simone's Skin Is as Important as the Sound of Her Voice." Brit Julious, Pitchfork.com. March 10, 2016. On April 22nd, Nina, a movie inspired by — but not an accurate reflection of — Nina Simone will be released in theaters. Starring Zoe Saldana, a black Latina actress best known for her roles in Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy, Nina continues to court controversy years after the project was first announced and filmed. Last week, after initial images of Saldana — in dark makeup and a prosthetic nose — as Simone appeared in the first trailer, the debate was not only reignited but doused in butane with a single tweet from Simone's official account (Simone's daughter was a little more diplomatic regarding Saldana specifically, though not the film). https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1050-why-the-color-of-nina-simones-skin-is-as-important-as-the-sound-of-her-voice/
  5. "The Campaign to Preserve Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Raises More than $60,000." S. Edwards, Indyweek.com. October 3, 2019. In August, numerous North Carolina cultural institutions came together to raise funds to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home in Tryon, N.C. The building, which was scheduled for demolition, was purchased in 2017 by four New York City-based artists who, in 2018, were able to get the building designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A preservation campaign for the home was launched as part of Come Hear NC's year-long campaign to champion North Carolina's musical heritage. https://indyweek.com/music/news/nina-simone-preservation-campaign-fundraising-update/
  6. "Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Will Be Preserved Thanks to Fundraising Efforts." Joyce Chen, October 1, 2019. Architecturaldigest.com. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has collected over $60,000 to save the legendary singer's Tryon, North Carolina, house. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/nina-simone-childhood-home-preserved



  • http://www.ninasimone.com/
  • http://www.ninasimone.com/discography/
  • http://www.ninasimoneproject.org/
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/2944824d-4c26-476f-a981-be849081942f
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Raisin_in_the_Sun
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansberry_v._Lee
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_of_a_Dream_Deferred
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Nemiroff
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_Young,_Gifted_and_Black
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois







On Social Media!



http://www.boscarol.com/ninasimone/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nina-Simone/55786679557
https://plus.google.com/113386308307853606476
http://twitter.com/#!/NinaSimoneMusic



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Sources for "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: Nina Simone"



Multimedia


  1. "Mississippi Goddam." Nina Simone, Youtube. November 7, 2014. [5:30] Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment. Mississippi Goddam · Nina Simone  The Very Best Of Nina Simone 1967-1972 - Sugar In My Bowl  ℗ Recorded prior to 1972. All rights reserved by BMG Music. https://youtu.be/WoLWMv9E7iU
  2. "Nina Simone: To Be Young, Gifted and Black." Nina Simone, Youtube. February 21, 2013. [9:21] "To Be Young, Gifted & Black" by Nina Simone (includes interview) Recording session: Live at Morehouse College in Atlanta, June 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk
  3. "Nina Simone: An Artist's Duty." Nina Simone, Youtube. February 21, 2013. [0:51] Release [sic] by the Estate of Nina Simone. https://youtu.be/99V0mMNf5fo





Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites


  1. "A Raised Voice: How Nina Simone turned the movement into music." Claudia Roth Pierpont, Thenyewyorker.com. August 3, 2014. "My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a song she had written about what she called “four Negro women” to a young, homogeneously white, and transfixed crowd. “And one of the women’s hair,” she instructed, brushing her hand lightly across her own woolly Afro, “is like mine.” Every performance of “Four Women” caught on film (as here) or disk is different. Sometimes Simone coolly chants the first three women’s parts—the effect is of resigned weariness—and at other times, as on this particular night, she gives each woman an individual, sharply dramatized voice. All four have names. Aunt Sarah is old, and her strong back has allowed her only “to take the pain inflicted again and again.” Sephronia’s yellow skin and long hair are the result of her rich white father having raped her mother—“Between two worlds I do belong”—and Sweet Thing, a prostitute, has tan skin and a smiling bravado that seduced at least some of the eager Dutch listeners into the mistake of smiling, too. And then Simone hit them with the last and most resolutely up to date of the women, improbably named Peaches. “My skin is brown,” she growled ferociously, “my manner is tough. I’ll kill the first mother I see. ’Cause my life has been rough.” (One has to wonder what the Dutch made of killing that “mother.”) If Simone’s song suggests a history of black women in America, it is also a history of long-suppressed and finally uncontainable anger. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/11/raised-voice
  2. "Nina Simone." Natelegé Whaley, Mic.com. May 2, 2019. Nina Simone was a singer, musician and a freedom fighter during the civil rights movement. Often called the “high priestess of soul,” she was a black musical genius unafraid of tackling politics, but this meant her life was filled with difficulty. She risked her popularity at the height of her career for the liberation of the African diaspora. There weren’t many spaces made for Simone, but she transformed every space she touched. She also inspired many musical artists, from Aretha Franklin to Lauryn Hill to Mary J. Blige. https://www.mic.com/articles/186976
  3. "Why the Color of Nina Simone's Skin Is as Important as the Sound of Her Voice." Brit Julious, Pitchfork.com. March 10, 2016. On April 22nd, Nina, a movie inspired by — but not an accurate reflection of — Nina Simone will be released in theaters. Starring Zoe Saldana, a black Latina actress best known for her roles in Avatar and Guardians of the Galaxy, Nina continues to court controversy years after the project was first announced and filmed. Last week, after initial images of Saldana — in dark makeup and a prosthetic nose — as Simone appeared in the first trailer, the debate was not only reignited but doused in butane with a single tweet from Simone's official account (Simone's daughter was a little more diplomatic regarding Saldana specifically, though not the film). https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1050-why-the-color-of-nina-simones-skin-is-as-important-as-the-sound-of-her-voice/
  4. "The Campaign to Preserve Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Raises More than $60,000." S. Edwards, Indyweek.com. October 3, 2019. In August, numerous North Carolina cultural institutions came together to raise funds to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home in Tryon, N.C. The building, which was scheduled for demolition, was purchased in 2017 by four New York City-based artists who, in 2018, were able to get the building designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A preservation campaign for the home was launched as part of Come Hear NC's year-long campaign to champion North Carolina's musical heritage. https://indyweek.com/music/news/nina-simone-preservation-campaign-fundraising-update/


  • http://www.ninasimone.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansberry_v._Lee
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_of_a_Dream_Deferred
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Be_Young,_Gifted_and_Black







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  1. Kool and the Gang: "Hollywood Swingin'"
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  3. Nina Simone: "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" (includes interview)






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  1. Casandra Wilson: "Redemption Song"








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