Walking. Apartment.
American Indian Movement founded.
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 Voices
A.I.M. Song/B.I.A. Song – American Indian Movement Singers
A.I.M. – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Sacrifice – Robbie Robertson
Freedom – Ras Kass & Dj Free Leonard
Antipatriarca – Ana Tijoux
Indigena – Aztlan Underground
Red Winter – Drezus
Category Archives: Antiracism
11 July 2024
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
1 July 2024 First Nations
Canada Day. First Nations.
Akua Tuta – Kashtin
Ancestor Song – Robbie Robertson
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
We Shall Remain – Kalolin Johnson
Nasa’l Mawiesp-Pite’wk Kmusnk – Bernie Francis
Family and Friends – Shift from the 902
Stay Strong – Kelly Fraser
Broken – Bear Fox
Residential School Song (Indian Boarding School Song) – Cheryl Bear
Little Star – iskwē
We Won’t Forget You – N’we Jinan Artists
Nin Kesatm L’nu’isi – The Relatives
Apija’li Essisoqnik – 2nd Generation
Ke’ Mawita’nej – Hubert Francis
Unama’ki – Richard Poulette
First Flight – Morgan Tomey
Filed under Antiracism, Human Rights, Music, playlist
25 June 2026
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 Ensemble
Lakota Forever – Brule
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowen & Valley of Little Big Horn
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Cody & Hovia Edwards
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai
A Man Named Crazy Horse – Shannon Thunderbird
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
Sitting Bull’s Sundance – Dan McGrath
The Legend of Crazy Horse – Jim Young
Battle of Little Bighorn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud
Filed under Antiracism, Music, playlist
17 June 2024
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Mother Emanuael. Charleston.
Everytime -Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding
Freedom – Pharrell Williams
Wade in the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Steal Away – The Princely Players
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Kehembe Eichelberger
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Too Many Martyrs – Kim & Reggie Harris
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody – Mary D. Williams
Drown in my Own Tears – Richie Havens
Ghosts of Charleston – Marc S. Kruza
Mother Emanuel – Shirley Caesar
Emanuel – Dead 27s
There Is a Balm in Gilead – Florida A&M University Concert Choir
The President Sang Amazing Grace – Zoe Mulford
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
When God Became White: New book by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Check out the new book by the Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim – available now. I look forward to reading it.
Filed under Antiracism, Books, Current Events
9 April 2024
Anniversary of Marian Anderson concert at Lincoln Memorial in 1939.
Paul Robeson birthday.
The first two songs are by Marian Anderson. I need to get more.
The remaining songs are by Paul Robeson.
My Lord, What a Morning (feat. Franz Rupp)
Stille Tränen, Op. 32, No. 10
Shenandoah
Deep River
Go Down Moses
On My Journey
Water Boy
The Minstrel Boy
Danny Boy
Loch Lomond
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Get on Board Little ChildrenS
Someone Scandalize My Name
Eriskay Love Lilt
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Mexican Lullaby
All Through the Night
Jerusalem
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
The Four Rivers
John Brown’s Body
The House I Live in
Ballad for Americans
Balm in Gilead
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
4 April 2024
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
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 Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, Louisville, Music, playlist
25 March 2024
Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights (1965) reaches Montgomery.
Remembering courage and grace and faith.
If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Oh Freedom – Harry Belafonte
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
If I Had a Hammer – Odetta
God Will Take Care of You – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Steal Away/Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Hosea Williams and Marchers
Come by Here – Marchers
Blowing in the Wind – Peter, Paul & Mary
We Shall Not Be Moved – Marchers
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Which Side Are You On? – James Orange and Protestors
Everybody Wants Freedom – Demonstrators a March
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Joan Baez
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Demonstrators at March
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round – Two Little Girls at March
This Little Light of Mine – Workers in Selma at Mass for Jimmie Lee Jackson
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round – James Orange and Youth
Take My Hand, Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson
Amazing Grace – Fannie Lou Hamer
We Shall Overcome – Workers in Selma at March
Glory – Common and John Legend
Freedom Songs: Selma. Alabama provided a primary resource for this playlist. Other artists appeared at the “Stars for Freedom” Rally on the evening of March 24 although I am not sure whether the songs I choose are the ones they performed.
Filed under Antiracism, Music, New Mexico, playlist
24 March 2024
Martyrdom of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day, marking the arrival of the last of 17 detachments of the Cherokee people in Indian Territory following the Trail of Tears.
CheEl Padre Antonio Y Su Mongaguillo Andres – Ruben Blades
Homenaje a Rutillio Grande – SON Tres Cuartos
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project
El Salvador – Peter, Paul, & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero – Jean-Luc Ponty
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico
St. Patrick’s Day 2024
My annual St. Patrick’s day statement seems more appropriate this year than ever.
I speak for no others,
only for myself.
For me, this day has
nothing to do with
green beer or
green rivers or
green clothing or
green anything,
this day has nothing to do with
pinching me or kissing me;
my bad jokes aside,
this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.
Today is a day
to remember oppression
to honor resistance
to recognize that, despite the efforts of
systems of race and racialization
to separate us,
struggles for dignity and justice,
freedom and equality,
human rights and humanity
are inseparably linked:
none of us are free until all of us are free.
for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,
I mark this day, and each 17th of March.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Fitzgerald on my mother’s side
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Ireland
Along the Graybeard Trail 