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11 February 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.
Friendship Train – Gladys Knight & The Pips
Joy (Pt. 1) – Isaac Hayes
Can We Find a Reason? – Lenny Kravitz
Be Happy – Mary J. Blige
Four Women – Nina Simone
Respect – Otis Redding
The House I Live In – Paul Robeson
The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix
West End Blues – Louis Armstrong
Turtle Dove – Ranky Tanky
Joy Inside My Tears – Stevie Wonder
Jailhouse – Aaron Neville
Poetic Retreat – Adina Nyree
Lean on Me – Bill Withers
Wade in the Water – The Howard University Chamber Choir

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10 February 2019

Morningside Heights. Walking.
Don’t Take Away My Heaven – Aaron Neville
Take Me to the Alley – Gregory Porter
Battle Hymn of the Republic – The Abyssinian Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir
Work for Your Money – Howlin’ Wolf
Off Beat Blues – Adina Nyree
The Donald – A Tribe Called Quest
I’m on My Way – The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Choir
We’ll Be Together Again – Harry Pickens
Until the End of Time – 2Pac
Land of 1000 Dances – Wilson Pickett
S.O.S – will.i.am
More – Usher
God Bless the Children – TT The Artist
The Tracks of My Tears – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Be and Be Not Afraid – Tracy Chapman

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7 February 2019

Posted a day late.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.
U.N.I.T.Y. – Queen Latifah
911 Is a Joke – Public Enemy
New World Water – Mos Def
Changes – 2Pac & Talent
Everything Is Everything – Lauryn Hill
Waterfalls – TLC
It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop – Dead Prez
What They Do – The Roots
They Don’t Care About Us – Michael Jackson
U Will Know – BMU
State of the Nation – George Clinton
It Was a Good Day – Ice Cube
Thieves in the Night – Black Star

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5 February 2019

Gym at the Shire. Stretching
Morningside Gardens. Walking.
Laundry Room at the Shire. Laundry.
Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Don’t Believe the Hype – Public Enemy
Party at Ground Zero – Fishbone
Renegades of Funk – Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
Colors – Ice-T
Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution – Tracy Chapman
Control – Janet Jackson
Proud to Be Black – Run-DMC
Nelson Mandela – The Special AKA
Man in the Mirror – Michael Jackson
String Quartet No. 1: I. Allegro – by George Walker, performed by Son Sinora String Quartet

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3 February 2019

Gym at the Shire. Treadmill. Flexibility and stretching with NK Body Philosphy.
Morningside Gardens. Walking.

I Should Be Proud – MarthaReeves & The Vandellas
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Ball of Confusion – The Temptations
Black Man – Stevie Wonder
We Are Family – Sister Sledge
Machine Gun – Jimi Hendrix
Whitey on the Moon – Gil Scott-Heron
Black Is – The Last Poets
Give More Power to the People – The Chi-Lites
Them Bully Full – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Black Maybe – Syreeta
To Be Young, Gifted and Black – Nina Simone

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4 February 2019

Walking. Penn Station.
Treadmill. Gym at the Shire.
Stretching.
People Get Ready – The Impressions
Soul Man – Sam & Dave
Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud – Aretha Franklin
Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
The Klan – Richie Havens
Friendship Train – Gladys Knight
Shadows of Society – Diana Ross & The Supremes
The Ghetto – Donny Hathaway
Alabama – John Coltrane
Freedom – Charles Mingus
Mississippi Goddam – Nina Simone
Dancing in the Street – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
Let America Be America Again – written by Langston Hughes, read by James Earl Jones

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1 February 2019

Gym at the Shire. Flexibility and stretching with NK Body Philosophy.
Walking. Morningside Gardens.

Street Fighting Man – Rod Stewart
Wo Yao Ni De Ai – Grace Chang
You’ve Really God a Hold on Me – The Beatles
Zombie – The Cranberries
Sramaya – Habib Koite & Bamada
Grey Girl – Rebecca Riots
Candide Overture – Candide Pit Orchestra
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Everybody (Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert)
Kangivumanga – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
All of Mine – Smokey Robinson
Bodhrans on the Brain – Black 47
The Beauty of the Rain – Dar Williams
Root Beer Rag – Bily Joel
Ghost – Awkwafina

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30 January 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens

Mother of Nations – Joanne Shenandoah
Fresh Water Salmon – Awkwafina
Stand – Sly & The Family Stone
Tie the Bonnet – Lunasa
The Teelin March – The Boys of the Lough
March Up Fifth – Eileen Ivers
Things to Come – Dizzy Gillespie
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning – Oklahoma
That’ll Be the Day – Linda Ronstadt
In the Water – Run River North
Radio Nowhere – Bruce Springsteen
Gethsemane – Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Great Gig in the Sky – Luna
Jericho – John McCutcheon
Spirit Voices – Paul Simon
The Minsral Boy – Paul Robeson
You Ain’t Gotta Lie – Kendrick Lamar

 

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29 January 2019

Gym at the Shire. Treadmill.
Morningside Gardens. Walking.

Song of the Plains – Paul Robeson
Willie Taylor – Mary Dillon
Letter to the Free – Common
Banguela – Miriam Maria
I’ve Been Working – Van Morrison
Open All Night – Bruce Springsteen
The Long Black Veil – Mick Jagger & The Chieftains
Releasing Buffalo Spirits – My Western Music
All Along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
The Gathering – John Munro
If I Could Build My Whole World Aroung You – Marvin Gaye
#9 Dream – R.E.M.
Thirty Days – Chuck Berry
Home – Karla Bonoff
Stand Up! – John McCutcheon

Due to events of yesterday and today, I added:
Freedom – Jussie Smollett
I Know My Name – Jussie Smollett
Just Once – James Ingram
One Hundred Ways – James Ingram

 

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28 January 2019

Walking. Morningside Gardens.

Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen
Babalao – Angelique Kidjo
Cecilia – Simon & Garfunkel
Cheek to Cheek – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Christian Island – Gordon Lightfoot
California Dreamin’ – Queen Latifah
Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly
Yellowbird – The Carnival Steel Drum Band
Colonel Bogey March – Coldstream Guards
Back to You – Luna
Cut It Out – Indigo Girls
Fire and Raine – Blood, Sweat & Tears
Billy Don’t Fall – Terence Trent D’Arby
House at Pooh Corner – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Curious – Hayley Kiyoko

This playlist is based on one originally created by my sister. Some of the artists differ as do some of the songs. But it is basically hers. Thanks!

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