What s Going On at 50 – Marvin Gaye s Motown classic is as relevant today as it was in 1971
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Victory Gardens Announces Events With Blu Rhythm Collective s The Redline Project
The first event is a panel discussion, “The Making of: Bringing Together Art and Activism” on May 23.by BWW News Desk
Victory Gardens Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Ken-Matt Martin and Acting Managing Director Roxanna Conner, joins with Victory Gardens Resident Director Jess McLeod and the Chicago-based Blu Rhythm Collective to present a series of events this spring on The Redline Project, continuing Victory Gardens Online Public Program Series. The first event is a panel discussion, The Making of: Bringing Together Art and Activism on May 23, 2021 at 2:00pm Central on Zoom. More events will be announced later this spring.
Ask any self-respecting music junkie about the summer of 1969, and they’ll tell you about the greatest music festival of the ‘60s: Woodstock. Psychedelia, drug overdoses and some of the greatest rock musicians of all time took center stage in Bethel, New York.
But just 100 miles away in Harlem, another cultural phenomenon was making waves. They called it “Black Woodstock,” and until Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson’s 2021 documentary “Summer of Soul (.Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” it was almost forgotten.
The Harlem Cultural Festival took place in a park smack in the middle of one of the most densely populated areas in the U.S., for six Sundays in the heat of the summer. It featured names like Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder and The 5th Dimension in a massive celebration of Black music. Best of all, it was completely free, which meant nearly 300,000 people attended over the course of the festival.
Review of Johanna Fernández’s book The Young Lords: A Radical History
by Chris Wright / May 3rd, 2021
Johanna Fernández’s
The Young Lords: A Radical History could hardly have been published at a more auspicious time. The fateful year 2020 saw not only the outbreak of a global pandemic but also, in the U.S., a rejuvenation of Black Lives Matter and renewed national attention to issues of racial and economic justice. The pandemic and its economic consequences have further skewed a lopsided distribution of income, with U.S. billionaires gaining over a trillion dollars in the last nine months of 2020 even as millions of people were thrown out of work and wages continued to stagnate. Popular resistance, in part inspired by Bernie Sanders’ two presidential campaigns, seems to be gaining momentum, as the nation continues its headlong rush into an era of tumult likely reminiscent of both the 1930s and the 1960s-70s. The memory of the Young Lords resonates in our time of troubles
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