Sunday, January 17, 2021
Dunbar Heritage Association will host a virtual wreath-laying ceremony on Monday, Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. The physical event will be filmed earlier in the day, but will be shared online via the Dunbar Heritage Association Facebook page @DunbarHeritage.
Since its inception in 1999, the DHA has come together with multiple San Marcos organizations to commemorate the main Black cultural holidays: MLK Day in January, Black History Month in February, and Juneteenth in June. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the celebration will look a little different than it has in years past, but it will continue to promote the core values that Dr. King hoped to inspire.
Paredon Records
By Barbara Dane
At age 93, as I reflect back on the 50th anniversary of Paredon Records, I am as excited and pleased as I was when I and my late husband, Irwin Silber, created the label. Our motivation and goals a half a century ago, all about the relentless human search for justice, peace, and love, keep Paredon relevant today.
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When we founded Paredon in 1970, few record labels were documenting the music that had begun to burst from liberation and resistance movements all over the world. Decades earlier, when I began my own journey as a singer of this kind of music, celebrating the victories of these struggles as well as describing the conditions which motivated them, I was a youngster in Detroit. There, I was confronted daily with the pain and sorrow left behind by WWI as well as the courage and determination of Great Depression survivors everywhere. A vibrant labor movement had emerged in our countr
The Baton Rouge Symphony s Holiday Brass concert, featuring the symphony brass and percussion, will be held online at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16. The concert, conducted by David Torns and streaming live from St. Joseph Cathedral, will feature David Summers on the cathedral pipe organ. Tickets are $30 at brso.org.
A fundraiser for America, My Oyster Association will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Kendra Scott store at Perkins Rowe shopping center. The store will donate 20% of sales to provide additional funding for AMOA s Making a Stand to Understand Our America! documentary series, which will feature interviews with the graduates of the Class of 2020 about pursuing their education during the pandemic and social unrest. They also talk about how they plan to use their education and talents to make America better. Twenty percent of online purchases Dec. 19-20 with the code GIVEBACK-0ISU also will be donated to AMOA, which encourages students to embrace education a