Wednesday, August 18, 2010

RIP ABBEY LINCOLN



Abbey Lincoln, famed jazz singer and actress, died in New York City on Saturday. She was 80.Lincoln recorded more than 20 albums, acted in films, and became a leading voice in the civil rights movement during her six-decade career.She passed away in Manhattan, the New York Times reported.Her first album was called Abbey Lincoln's Affair—A Story of a Girl in Love and became an instant success. Lincoln was one of the first negro women to act in a leading role, alongside Sidney Poitier in the 1968 movie For Love of Ivy. The Chicago-born singer performed regularly with Billie Holiday as her main influence, up until her death. Her last album Abbey Sings Abbey was released in 2007.

The Nearness Of You by AlisonCecile

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT!


WHAT WENT WRONG?



In the 70,s you rarely would see raggedy people amongst us, we were good looking ,the women were beautiful and the men were actually men, what a great time to remember, when we called each other brother,and a women a sista because of the love we had back then for each other. Now we have become macho thugs and sluts that stare at each other with hate,the women will not even speak to you out of fear, we glorify and boast the very issues which keep us on the bottom...

one day coming soon those dummies will pay a heavy price for choosing the way of the devil.

MOCKING THE DEATH OF EMMETT TILL.

COLLEGE DAYZ

College Student Shot Because She Would Not Give Man Her Phone Number



A young college student claims she was shot by a man because she refused to give him her phone number.The young woman, whose identity has been protected, told police she was leaving a party in southeast Washington early Sunday when a man asked for her number.“He told my cousin he was going to shoot at us if I didn't give him my number and then he started shooting,” she told authorities.

One of those bullets struck the student as she ran away.

It is still lodged in her ankle. Surgeons will decide how to remove it.

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I sometimes feel like an alien creature
for which there is no earthly explanation
Sure I have human form
walking erect and opposing digits,
but my mind is upside down.
I feel like a run-on sentence
in a punctuation crazy world.
and I see the world around me
Like a mad collective dream.

An endless stream of people
move like ants from the freeway
cell phones, pc's, and digital displays
"In Money We Trust,"
we'll find happiness
the prevailing attitude;

like a genetically modified irradiated Big Mac
is somehow symbolic of food.

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all

we all know missile envy only comes from being small.
Politicians and prostitutes
are comfortable together
I wonder if they talk about the strange change in the weather.
This government was founded by, of, and for the people

but everybody feels it
like a giant open sore
they don't represent us anymore
And blaming the President for the country's woes
is like yelling at a puppet
for the way it sings

Who's the man behind the curtain pulling the strings?


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Tuesday, August 3, 2010