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⛔️ Pls don't follow with 0️⃣ posts or with no alt-text on posts with images or with no bio/profile🖼 Seriously.

Beware 📌. Posts are impermanent.

Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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"Blacks in the Diaspora obscure themselves as much as they are obscured.. they are the creative legs of an even more dubious globalization...

What is produced in Black homes... expressions, gestures, understandings, dress, are taken up in the generalizing, homogenizing culture."
- Dionne Brand, Map
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand | Penguin Random House Canada
“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.”Now entering its third decade in print, Dionn...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
August 14, 2024 at 12:19 PM
You're welcome. And excerpt from "Thick" is below.
"Brooks's essays fail, if public mocking is a measure of such things.. And, yet, he will have a job.. after every bad essay that misses some notable point or reading or data. Mr. Brooks will be back because his job is not to be right but to be there."
- Thick, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Boop boop.
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 AM
I'm not sure that it comes close to the entire chapter that Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote on Brooks in "Thick", but alt-text for above post is below.
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Cool!
January 30, 2026 at 1:36 AM
That would be phenomenal. 🎼
January 30, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Seconded...
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I hope that someone puts it on again.
January 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I was struck by how modern it was— the themes and the music.
January 30, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I want to add composer Edmond Dédé from New Orleans.

His opera Morgiana was thrilling.
#BlackComposers
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Afro-American Symphony (1930) by composer William Grant Still (1895–1978) was the first symphony written by an African American and performed for a U.S. audience by a leading orchestra.

It was premiered in 1931 by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
#BlackSky #Classical

youtu.be/yDoW6Y7sYCE?...
Afro-American Symphony: I. Moderato assai
YouTube video by Paul Freeman - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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Sony Classical's Black Composer Series 2/2:

Panamanian Roque Cordero (1917–2008), American Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917–1995);
Nigerian Fela Sowande (1905–1987); Panamanian Roque Cordero (1917–2008); American Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917–1995) #Classical

Cuban violinist-composer José Silvestre White
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: I. Allegro
YouTube video by Paul Freeman - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 4:06 AM