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thepeoplesrecord: “Conventional wisdom would have one believe...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:59 -0400

“Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to aquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.” - Mumia Abu-Jamal

Prosecutors, detectives, defense lawyers and their private investigators will spend the coming months combing through yellowing files and jogging faded memories trying to find clues that could answer the question that has shaken the Brooklyn criminal justice system: Did a rogue detective put men in prison for murders they did not commit?

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:40:13 -0400

Prosecutors, detectives, defense lawyers and their private investigators will spend the coming months combing through yellowing files and jogging faded memories trying to find clues that could answer the question that has shaken the Brooklyn criminal justice system: Did a rogue detective put men in prison for murders they did not commit?

atane: Born on this day: Archie Shepp Photo by Roberto Polillo...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:34:04 -0400

atane:

Born on this day: Archie Shepp

Photo by Roberto Polillo (Source)

Gettin’ There - Bud Powell Album - The Amazing Bud Powell...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:31:53 -0400

Gettin’ There - Bud Powell

Album - The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 5

Valaida Snow, Trumpet She was born in Chattanooga,Tennessee....

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:29:00 -0400

Valaida Snow, Trumpet

She was born in Chattanooga,Tennessee. Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophoneat professional levels by the time she was 15. She also sang and danced.

After focusing on the trumpet, she quickly became so famous at the instrument that she was named “Little Louis” after Louis Armstrong, who used to call her the world’s second best jazz trumpet player besides himself. She played concerts throughout the USA, Europe and China. From 1926 to 1929 she toured with Jack Carter’s Serenaders in Shanghai, Singapore, Calcutta and Jakarta.

Sonny Rollins - Four Album - A Night at the Village Vanguard

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:19:30 -0400

Sonny Rollins - Four

Album - A Night at the Village Vanguard

cartermagazine: CARTER Magazine: Today In History ‘Noble Sissle...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:14:30 -0400

cartermagazine:

CARTER Magazine: Today In History

‘Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along, a pioneer musical featuring Josephine Baker, Florence Mills, Caterina Jarboro, William Grant Still, Hal Johnson and others, opened at the 63rd Street Music Hall in New York City on this date May 23, 1921.’

(photo: Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake)

- CARTER Magazine

Hold It Now - Talib Kweli Album - Prisoner of Conscious

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:18:03 -0400

Hold It Now - Talib Kweli

Album - Prisoner of Conscious

todaysdocument: War Department General Order 143: Ordering the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:00 -0400

Photograph of United States Colored Troops at Port Hudson, Louisiana, 1864 ARC Identifier 594179

War Department General Order 143 Ordering the Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops, 05/22/1863 ARC Identifier 4662603

Page 2 - War Department General Order 143 Ordering the Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops, 05/22/1863 ARC Identifier 4662603

Photograph of Private Hubbard Pryor before enlistment in 44th U.S. Colored Troops: 10/10/1864 ARC Identifier 849127

Photograph of Private Hubbard Pryor After Enlistment in 44th U.S. Colored Troops: 10/10/1864 ARC Identifier 849136

todaysdocument:

War Department General Order 143: Ordering the Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops, May 22, 1863

The outbreak of the Civil War set off a rush by free black men to enlist in U.S. military units. They were turned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred Negroes from bearing arms for the U.S. Army. The Lincoln administration wrestled with the idea of authorizing the recruitment of black troops, concerned that such a move would prompt the border states to secede.

However, following the Emancipation Proclamation and faced with dwindling white volunteers, black recruitment was pursued in earnest. Volunteers from South Carolina, Tennessee, and Massachusetts filled the first authorized black regiments. Recruitment was slow until black leaders such as Frederick Douglass encouraged black men to become soldiers to ensure eventual full citizenship. (Two of Douglass’s own sons contributed to the war effort.) Volunteers began to respond, and in May 1863 the Government established the Bureau of Colored Troops to manage the burgeoning numbers of black soldiers. By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men (10 percent of the Union Army) served as soldiers in the U.S. Army, and another 19,000 served in the Navy.

via Our Documents

Yep.

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:43 -0400

Yep.

theycallmemrsharp: Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra Door...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:44:01 -0400

theycallmemrsharp:

Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra

Door of the Cosmos

Sleeping Beauty

Art Yard, 1979

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:40:29 -0400

soulbrotherv2: On this date in 1863 in North Carolina, the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:38:52 -0400

soulbrotherv2:

On this date in 1863 in North Carolina, the United States Department of War established the Bureau of Colored Troops, to help the Union Army fight the Civil War.

Regiments of colored troops from all states of the nation were reorganized into what became known as the United States Colored Troops (USCT).

Blacks have a rich history in United States military, and this was one of the first authorized attempts by the Federal government to enlist former slaves in the defense of the Union. The policy was innovative, new, and controversial with varying degrees of success. [Continue reading at the African American Registry.]

mybutbeautiful: He was my friend, a mentor, the person who...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:15 -0400

mybutbeautiful:

He was my friend, a mentor, the person who showed me a pathway to what I have since called a profession. I got my first taste of filmmaking through him, but I never got to do that which I longed to do - shoot for him.

His films are legendary and yet his name is not a household one like it should be.

He passed away on May 12th, 2013 and was buried on May 17th. I went to his funeral and afterward I had to go somewhere special to remember him in my own way.

There I found his spirit crashing against the rocks much the way he did to get his films made and seen. This is how I will remember him as well as his films.

His name was BILL MILES.

(Please take a look at his Obit in The New York Times)

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:59:43 -0400

“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”

- Steve Maraboli (via pfelps)

YUP…peace.

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:28:28 -0400

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a “Vengeance” dive bomber, Tennessee, 1943

Photo by Alfred T. Palmer

agirlchangingtheworld: This might just be my new favorite...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:21:44 -0400

agirlchangingtheworld:

This might just be my new favorite picture.

John Coltrane - Slowtrane Album - Sides of Blue Vol. 2

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:51 -0400

John Coltrane - Slowtrane

Album - Sides of Blue Vol. 2

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:18 -0400

"It’s overdue. Laws were broken and an appropriate investigation ensued. The AP should stop..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:17:00 -0400

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It’s overdue. Laws were broken and an appropriate investigation ensued. The AP should stop whining because authorities uncover the details of their illegal acts.

The First Amendment does not excuse obtaining and revealing classified information. One might claim that security classification is occasionally used to cover up embarrassing events. Journalists have not been endowed with the authority to decide for themselves when classified material should be “declassified”.

I believe that freedom of the press is a most essential right. Because of its importance, it is critical that those exercising that right not themselves become criminals in the process.

The First Amendment is not a license to break the law.

”

- -NeverLift (New York Times Comment) “Stop The Leaks”

AGREED.