Walking. Apartment. Germantown.
Let America Be America Again – James Earl Jones
Why U Turn On Me – 2Pac
Kindhearted Woman Blues – Robert Johnson
Crescendo in Blue – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
I Guess I’ll Get the Papers – Louis Armstrong
A Single Woman – Nina Simone
Spirit in the Dark – Aretha Franklin
Red River – Lead Belly
All By Myself – Fats Domino
Fading Flower – Yuna
How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye
The Bottle – Gil Scott-Heron
Listen to the Lambs – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Use Me – Bill Withers
Lift Every Voice and Sing – The Boys Choir of Harlem
Category Archives: Antiracism
1 February 2024
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27 January 2024
Walking. Stretching. Solon.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Liberation VII. Free at Last – Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: I. Andante – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: II. Tempo di marcia – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: III. Maestoso – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Duo for Violin & Viola in the Quarter-Tone System: IV. Allegro – Teng Li & Benjamin Bowman
Shostakovich – Symphony No. 13 in B Flat Minor – Op. 113, “Babi Yar”: II. Yumor – Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Music Written in Terezin by Gideon Klein
Piano Sonata: I. Allegro con fuoco – Jaromir Klepac
Piano Sonata: II. Adagio – Jaromir Klepac
Piano Sonata: III. Allegro vivace – Jaromir Klepac
Trio: I. Allegro – Czech String Trio
Trio: II. Lento – Variation on Moravian folk song themes – Czech String Trio
Trio: III. Molto vivace – Czech String Trio
Dance – by Hans Krasa – Czech Folk String Trio
Four Songs on Chinese Poetry by Pavel Haas – Karl Prusa & Jiri Pokorny
A Survivor from Warsaw – Simon Joly Chorale, David Wilson-Johnson, Robert Craft & Philharmonia Orchestra
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15 January 2024
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Walking. Hand Weights. Strength work. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Happy Birthday – Stevie Wonder
By the Time I Get to Arizona – Public Enemy
One Vision – Queen
Proud to Be Black – Run-DMC
One – India.Arie
Wake Up – Rage against the Machine
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Brother Kirk, Pete Seeger & The Sesame Street Kids
Letter to the King – The Game, feat. Nas
Pride – U2
Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
King Holiday – King Dream Chorus & The Holiday Crew
Up the Mountain – Patty Griffin
MLK Song – Mavis Staples
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers
We Shall Overcome – Toots & The Maytals
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Let It Be – Bill Withers
Glory – Common & John Legend
Filed under Antiracism, Louisville, Music, playlist
14 January 2024
Midwives of the Movement.
Inspired by a sermon by the Rev. Shanea D. Leonard on 10 January 2024.
Walking. Stretching. Strength work. Gym in the Apartment.
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Stand Up – Cynthia Erivo
Young, Gifted and Black – Aretha Franklin
Ain’t I a Woman – Stacy Barthe
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D. Williams
Walk with Me – Fannie Lou Hamer
Speak – Jhené Aiko
Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
I Can’t Breathe – H.E.R.
Ain’t I a Woman – Pauline Jean
Freedom Day – Abbey Lincoln
Obeah Woman – Nina Simone
Think – Lynn Collins
Golden – Jill Scott
Hurricane – Grace Jones
Song 33 – Noname
BLACK PARADE – Beyoncé
Talkin’ Bout a Revolution – Tracy Chapman
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples
Take My Hand – Mahalia Jackson
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12 January 2024
Ira Hayes birthday.
Walking at Germantown Mill Lofts.
The Ballad of Ira Hayes – Kris Kristofferson
Heritage – Shelley Morningstar
You Will Have Peace – Joanne Shenandoah
Honoring – Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai
The Ballad of Ira Hayes – Johnny Cash
Healing Song #3 – Primeaux, Mike & Attson
Justice Hunters – Annie Humphrey
Golden Feather – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Brother Warrior – Sharon Burch
Two Flag Songs – Jack Gladstone
Calling All Warriors – Leela Gilday
Calling the Spirits Back – Joy Harjo
Ira Hayes – Peter LaFarge
The Marines’ Hymn – United States Marine Band
The Last Post – Band of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
31 December 2023
Stretching.
Watch Night.
Roberto Clemente death.
Farewell 2023, welcome 2024.
The World Is Old Tonight – Little Windows
Auld Lang Syne – Jersey Boys Ensemble
Auld Lang Syne – Eric Rigler
Auld Lang Syne – Shawn Lyons
Canticle of the Turning – Rory Cooney, Gary Daigle & Theresa Donohoo
New Year’s Resolution – Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
Kingdom Coming – Matt Glaser, Evan Stover, Jay Ungar, Art Baron & Molly Mason
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Freedom – Richie Havens
Freedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens
Freedom Now – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Freedom Train – Toots & The Maytals
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around – The Freedom Singers
Oh Freedom – The Princely Players
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Te Recuerdo – John McCutcheon
All Through the Night – Nancy Wilson
Auld Lang Syne – Joanne Shenandoah
The Parting Glass – The Wailin’ Jennys
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19 June 2023
Juneteenth.
Build a House – Rhiannon Giddens & Yo-Yo Ma
American Tune – Rhiannon Giddens & Paul Simon
Juneteenth – Suav
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Free – Prince
Free – Deniece Williams
Is My Living in Vain – Mattie Moss Clark & The Clark Sisters
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom Now – Tracy Chapman
I’m Just a Slave – The Roots
Not a Slave – Dre’ Sr
Freedom – Richie Havens
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Harriet Tubman/Steal Away – Kim & Reggie Harris
Juneteenth – Cast of Black-ish
Say It Loud – I ‘m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown
Alright – Kendrick Lamar
A Brand New Day – The Wiz
Fantasy – Earth, Wind & Fire
Yes We Can, Can – The Pointer Sisters
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
9th Wonder (Blackitolism) – Digibale Planets
Soul Sista – Bilal
Freedom – Joi
O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
Free – Destiny’s Child
I’ll Take You There – The Staple Singers
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
Umi Says – Mos Def
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun – Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton
One Nation under a Groove – Funkadelic
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1 October 2023
5K walk. Schnitzelburg. Remembrance Run.
Lost Souls – Tom Jackson
Residential School Song – Cheryl Bear
Child of the Government – Jayli Wolf
BEFORE – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Joseph Boyden
Apatapasiq – Mike Bern
Battlefields – Twin Flames
Savage Mob – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, feat. Nooky & Birdz
open window – nêhiyawak
Took the Children Away – Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter
Take Me Home – Indian City
Spirit Horses – Annie Humphrey
The Land of the Blind – Ira Provost
Why Us – N’we Jinan Artists
500 Years – Rhonda Head
Residential School – Jerry Alfred & The Medicine Beat
Cut My Hair – Digging Roots
Residential School – Chris Pierce
For Our Children – Bryan Akipa
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23 August 2023
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Sacco and Vanzetti execution.
Change Gonna Come – Otis Redding
This Little Light of Mine – Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom – Charles Mingus
Freedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens
Freedom Road – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Freedom – Richie Havens
Long Walk to Freedom – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Go Down, Moses – Paul Robeson
Get off the Track – Anne Enslow & Ridley Enslow, feat. Jacqueline Schwab
Steal Away – The Princely Players
There Is a Balm in Gilead – The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Free at Last – Kim & Reggie Harris
Oh Freedom – Mary D. Williams
Freedom Now – Sweet Honey on the Rock
The Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti – Joan BaezGer
Sacco’s Letter to His Son – Magpie
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5 August 2023
Walking. Louisville neighborhoods.
Oak Creek Sikh Gurdwara.
Grace of God – Sat Hari Singh
Gideh Vich – Anakhi
God and Me – Dev Suroop Kaur & Liv Singh
I Am the People – Mata Mandir Singh & Friends
Spark in the Night – Singh Kaur
The Lord’s Prayer – Singh Kaur
Tere Bin – Rabbi Shergill
Mil Mere Pritama Jiyo – Bhai Harjinder Singh Ji
Akhiyan Ch Ton Wasda – Surindar Kaur
Tu Thakar – Craig Pruess & Dya Singh
Long Time Sun – Snatam Kaur
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Along the Graybeard Trail 