“It is, the American way of death...” Free Mumia!

Roland Young should be talked about much more. Such an interesting life of music and politics.

Assata Shakur’s words here, which carefully connects Malcolm’s fight with Mumia’s, embodies how I view the Black Radical Tradition. An interconnected struggle for the liberation of Black Life. It defies genealogical isolation.

** ESP-Disk’ ** “Noah Howard Quartet” (Noah Howard, 1966) “More” (Giuseppi Logan, 1966) “Explosions” (Bob James Trio, 1965) “The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Vol. I” (Sun Ra Arkestra, 1965) #vinylcollection #nowplaying

🖤 “Understand us is a prayer”

"What am I feeling when I perform? I'm totally absorbed in making sound… A sound that doesn't disappear. A sound that weaves through all kinds of images. A sound with presence. A sound full of the cosmos. The sound of sound…" Happy Birthday Abe Kaoru born May 5, 1949

"Some people don't ever play their expression. They're always playing somebody else's expression or trying to sound like somebody. You never will get to your soul if you're trying to find somebody else's soul." Happy Birthday Kidd Jordan born May 5, 1935

On this day in 1959, Charles Mingus started recording “Mingus Ah Um” One of the greatest jazz records ever made…

In Newark demanding ICE free Mayor Ras Baraka.

Sun Ra came from Saturn. Interplanetary earth arrival date May 22 1914. Place : The Magic City, Birmingham, Alabama. US

Teamwork makes the DREAM work.

Rest in peace Bra Tebogo Louis Moholo-Moholo <3

Eric Dolphy.

In America, we have no kings. #NoKingsDay

This is one of the most stunningly sincere and human things I've seen from a politician. (h/t to Annie McDonough)

The Democratic establishment has been put on notice tonight.

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and his thousands of grassroots supporters for their extraordinary campaign. You took on the political, economic and media Establishment- and you beat them. Now it’s on to victory in the general election.

Young people got a clear message tonight. Do not listen to the naysayers and two face politicians who say you can’t win when you challenge a broken and corrupt system. It has never been more clear- the establishment has never been more weak than they are now. You need to run and

the corporate Democrats are gonna have a rough day today

"As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish". - Charlie Haden