Nelson Mandela Day.- Hugh Masekela
Nelson Mandela – Special AKA
The following songs are by Wouler Kellerman & Soweto Gospel Choir & KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic
A Madiba Wish
Mandela Medley
Asimbonanga / Biko – feat. Angelique Kidjo
Rainbow Nation
Jikele Maweni – feat. Angelique Kidjo
Thula Baba – feat. Buskaid Soweto String Project
Lizalis’indinga Iakho/Senzeni Na/Thina Sizwe
Soweto Travels
Black President – feat. Zonke
Wasiqoqela Ndawonya/Koloi Ena/Sizongena
Voice of Hope
Nomalanga
Different Colours, One People – feat. Rocky Dawuni
Mathebethebeni
Asimbonanga – Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Nkosi Sikelel ‘IAfrica – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Give Us a Flag – Richie Havens
The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground – Melinda Doolittle
Category Archives: Antiracism
18 July 2025
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A prayer of confession while children hunger and starve
How cruel have we become, God,
that we could even consider
burning food while
children hunger and starve?
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
How stunted is our creativity, God
that we cannot conceive
of ways to use food while
children hunger and starve?
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
What has happened to our values, God,
when we dismantle programs
that distribute food to
children who hunger and starve?
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
We confess our shortsightedness and cruelty;
we confess our stunted imagination and warped values.
Kyrie eleison.
Forgive us.
Pour your Holy Spirit afresh
upon those who make decisions
that they might repent and choose life
and seek ways to share the abundance you create.
Pour your Holy Spirit afresh
upon us all that we might repent
and continue to advocate and work
for a world in which everyone has enough.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Perhaps the food in question has expired and can no longer be used. If so, that is another human failure and represents additional actions of which we need to repent.
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights
11 July 2025
Walking North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.
Opening Song for the Maker – Joy Harjo
Evolution Revolution – Indigenous
Witnesses: Dreaming A Life – R. Carlos Nakai
The Prayer – SupaMan
American Indian Movement Song – Blackfire
In the River: A Protest Song – Raye Zaragoza
I Pity the Country – Willie Dunn
We Are the Halluci Nation – A Tribe Called Red, feat. John Trudell & Northern Voice
A.I.M. Song/B.I.A. Song – The American Indian Movement Singers
A.I.M (American Indian Movement) – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Sacrifice – Robbie Robertson
Freedom – Ras Kass & Dj Free Leonard
Antipatriarca – Ana Tijoux Vengo
Indigena – Aztlan Underground
Red Winter – Drezus
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
3 July 2025
Walking the arroyo. Morning movement.
Delightful morning to be out as Albuquerque (or at least our part of the city) had rain last night.
Gettysburg.
Battle Cry Of Freedom – Jacqueline Schwab
Who Knows Where The Wind Blows – Tommy Sands
Gettysburg – Tmark Band
Gettysburg – John Bell
Gettysburg – Kyle Thompson
Ballad of the 20th Maine – The Ghost of Paul Revere
Gettysburg – Civil War
Gettysburg, the Third Day – Sunderman Conservatory Wind Symphony & Russell McCutcheon
Kingdom Coming – Matt Glaser, Evan Stover, Jay Ungar, Art Baron & Molly Mason
Give Us a Flag – Richie Havens
We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder – Bernice Johnson Reagon
Battle Hymn Of The Republic – The Abyssinian Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir
Main Title (From “Gettysburg”) – The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Ashokan Farewell – Jay Ungar And Molly Mason
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Exercise, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A prayer as the struggle continues
(on the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising
and as the Pentagon renames the USNS Harvey Milk)
When fear calls us to forget,
when bigotry seeks to rewrite and erase,
we remember, God.
We will remember.
We remember Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera,
and all your beloved children
who participated in the Stonewall Uprising,
demanding dignity, respect, and justice.
We will remember.
We remember your beloved child Harvey Milk.
Even as the Pentagon removes his name from a U.S. naval vessel.
We remember his service in the U.S. Navy.
We remember his service in San Francisco.
We remember efforts to recruit us,
to recruit us for the fight to preserve democracy
from those who are trying to constitutionalize bigotry.
We remember his challenge and inspiration.
”you have to give them hope.
Hope for a better world,
hope for a better tomorrow,
hope for a better place to come to
if the pressures at home are too great.
Hope that all will be all right.”
We give thanks for the hope Harvey Milk gave,
the hope he still gives,
and we will remember.
We remember individuals and organizations
who have worked through the years
for the recognition, rights and inclusion of
the LGBTQIA2S+ community
within society and the church.
We will remember.
We remember with thanks those
engaged in this work and ministry
who we knew, and perhaps worked with:
who we know and work with now:
(say names aloud or silently in your heart).
We will remember.
We remember with thanks those
engaged in this work and ministry
whose names we did not know,
whose names we do not know,
and yet who touched our lives
and made life better, more whole, more just.
You know their names, God.
You made and love each one.
And we will remember.
We remember and confess
that some organizations
and individuals (myself among them)
have been too careful, timid, and fearful
through the years.
We accepted the status quo
and failed to challenge the oppression
endured by your beloved LGBTQIA2S+ children.
Forgive us. Renew us. Inspire us.
Help us find our voices.
Help us locate our places in the struggle.
We will remember.
And by your grace, may we do better.
We pray in the name of Jesus.
Amen.
words in italics are a paraphrase of Harvey Milk’s words in “That’s What America Is” a speech delivered by San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, June 25, 1978 (Gay Freedom Day); words in quotation marks are from “You’ve Got to Have Hope” by Harvey Milk delivered on June 24, 1977; note that like many public speakers (and preachers) Harvey Milk presented the same ideas in numerous speeches; words in bold italics are stage directions for your prayer
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Prayer
25 June 2025
Battle of the Greasy Grass
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
It Is A Good Day To Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road
Lakota Forever – Brulé
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
A Man Named Crazy Horse – Shannon Thunderbird
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowne & Valley Of Little Big Horn – Jack Gladstone
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Cody & Hovia Edwards
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
The Legend of Crazy Horse – Jim Young
Battle of Little Bighorn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud, feat. Def Shepard
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
A prayer to the Creative Spirit of diversity
Creative Spirit,
you make all that is,
you make the human family,
in rich, wild diversity,
each one in your own image,
everyone beloved by you.
The diversity you create
enlarges the sphere of possibilities
for all of us.
Help us
acknowledge the diversity you create
as your gift to us;
understand the diversity you create
as enhancing your world;
and celebrate the diversity you create
as enriching our lives.
Inspire us to reject and dismantle
all systems and ideologies
that erroneously and sinfully
maintain that some of us have greater value.
Guide us to welcome all people
as your beloved children
and to love one another
as taught and lived by Jesus
in whose name we pray.
Amen.
inspired by When God Became White by the Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim (subscribe to her Substack account)
Filed under Antiracism, Books, Current Events, Human Rights
Juneteenth 19 June 2025
Juneteenth.
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
I Am the Black Gold of the Sun – Rotary Connection & Minnie Riperton
One Nation under a Groove – Funkadelic
Build a House – Rhiannon Giddons & Yo-Yo Ma
Juneteenth Song – Gracie’s Corner
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing – Beyonce
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, playlist
4 April 2025
Walking. La Cueva Neighborhood.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated.
Now’s the Time – Charlie Parker & Miles Davis
Motel in Memphis – Life, Explicit
Martin, Martin – Denise Erwin
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
They Killed Him – Kate Campbell
Just a Little More Love – David Guetta (feat. Chris Willis)
Ballad of Martin Luther King – Pete Seeger, Brother Kirk & The Sesame Street Kids
Letter To Dr. Martin Luther King – Sweet Honey In The Rock
Blues for Martin Luther King – Otis Spann
March! For Martin Luther King – John Fahey
Like a King – Ben Harper
God Rest His Soul – Gregg Allman
MLK – U2
Mlk Song – Mavis Staples
So Beautiful or So What – Paul Simon
Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) – Nina Simone
Heaven Will Welcome You Dr. King – Big Maybelle
We March – Prince
Abraham, Martin and John – Harry Belafonte
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico
24 March 2025
Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Anniversary of assassination of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day. “186 years ago today, one of the final groups of Cherokees arrived in Indian Territory after being forcibly removed from our homelands and enduring a perilous journey across the Trail of Tears.”
El Padre Antonio Y Su Monaguillo Andrés – Rubén Blades
Homenaje a Rutilio Grande – SON
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project Martyrs
El Salvador – Peter, Paul & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero –
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Tears – Jobel Star Cherokee Tears
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Trail of Tears – Native American Indians
Amazing Grace – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Trail of Tears Song, We Will Go Together -6 Joy Harjo
Trail of a Thousand Tears – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
Trail of Tears – Clannad
Cherokee Bend – Gordon Lightfoot
Cherokee Morning Song – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Prayer for My People – Jay Red Eagle
For Those Who Cried (Cherokee Removal) – Jack Gladstone
Trail Of Freedom – Bill Miller
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico, playlist
Along the Graybeard Trail 