JAZZ NEWS - NYC

A Great Night in New York! Thank you to everyone who made our  June 10 Benefit Concert  a fantastic success!  Jon Batiste on Late Night with Stephen Colbert   The National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Artistic Director at Large,  Jon Batiste, will be the band leader on the  Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Read Jon's new interview in Esquire Magazine here.

HIS STORY V

     At last we came to the island of Barbados. Many merchants and planters came on board. They looked us over. I thought we would be eaten by these ugly men. We were taken on shore. There we were penned up together like so many sheep. The slave buyers hurried to make their choices. Families and friends were separated. Several brothers were sold in different lots.
     Let me ask you. Isn't it bad enough that we are torn from our country? That we must work to make you rich? Why must parents also lose their children? Why must husbands lose their wives? Surely this is some new form of cruelty.

     To read the narrative in it's entirety pick up a copy of the above book. To read more info on Olaudah Equiano GOOGLE his name.

BLACK HISTORY QUIZ

DID YOU KNOW?...THIS PERSON, THE CHILD OF EX-SLAVES, DEVELOPED A HAIR PRODUCT AND DIED A MILLIONAIRE!

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CAN YOU NAME THAT PERSON?

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Answer to previous quiz(6/2/15) MALCOLM X

                                 To learn more about this Community Creator GOOGLE his name.

A JAZZ LEGEND IS BORN

ERNEST HOGAN was born in 1865 in the Shake Rag District of Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was the first Black entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show (The Oyster Man in 1907), and helped to create the musical genre of RAGTIME.  In 1895  he published several songs in this new genre, one of which included "All Coons Look Alike To Me."

The success of this last song created many derogatory imitations, known as "coon songs," because of their use  of racist and stereotypical images of Black people. Before his death. Hogan stated that he "regretted" using the racial slur in his song.



To read his bio and success story GOOGLE his name.

ON THIS DAY...

JUNE 22, 1909

KATHERINE DUNHAM, DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER WAS BORN...SHE HAS BEEN CALLED THE "MATRIARCH AND QUEEN MOTHER OF BLACK DANCE."

But don't take my word for it. Go find your own, GOOGLE her name, relive her fame!

BREAKING THE SILENCE...

Please join the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School for the next event in our National Town Hall Series: BREAKING THE SILENCE NEW ORLEANS TOWN HALL ON WOMEN OF COLOR Thursday, June 18th 3:00-6:00pm Hyatt Regency Hotel Conference Room Celestin D 601 Loyola Ave New Orleans, LA 70113 Organized in partnership with: The National Organization for Women The Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies Women With A Vision Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy Project South If you're a women of color living in the New Orleans area and would like to share your story at the town hall, please email: rachel.gilmer@aapf.org Join the conversation online: #BreakingtheSilenceNOLA   CLICK HERE TO RSVP Join us as women of color share the challenges they face in New Orleans across a range of issues, including criminalization,  mass incarceration, domestic violence, sexual assault, economic marginalization, housing discrimination and post-Katrina recovery. Key decision makers will participate to suggest and advance tangible interventions. This Town Hall is being organized in partnership with the National NOW Conference.  About Breaking the Silence:  In 2014, AAPF launched Breaking the Silence, a town hall hearing series on women and girls of color. Thus far, hearings have been held in Miami, Baltimore, Washington DC, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta with each convening gathering between 50 and 350 participants. To see a video preview of the series, please click here. Our commitment in hosting these hearings is to bring the circumstances facing women and of color out of the shadows and squarely into public policy debates. Historically, government hearings have been held on men and boys of color, generating a deeper understanding among stakeholders of their specific needs. These hearings have led to increased public will and ultimately, the development of the Black male achievement landscape we see today. Through hosting similar hearings on women and girls of color, we hope to increase our nation’s collective understanding of the disparities they experience, both those that are common to and different from their male counterparts. Please join us as we listen to women of color in New Orleans. Together we can lift up the realities they face and demand their inclusion in our racial justice agendas!   For questions or to recieve more information about the town hall, please contact: info@aapf.org Facebook Twitter Website Instagram YouTube About the African American Policy Forum Founded in 1996, AAPF was developed as part of an ongoing effort to promote women’s rights in the context of struggles for racial equality. It serves as an information clearinghouse that works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public debates on questions of inequality, discrimination and injustice. Website: www.aapf.org  Email Address: afampolicyforum@gmail.com Phone Number: (212) 854-8041 Mailing Address: African American Policy Forum, Inc. 435 West 116th Street, Rm. 827 New York, NY 10025

JAZZ EVENT - NEW YORK CITY

June 8-12, 2015 Events 2015 Benefit Concert  Featuring Dianne Reeves and Joe Lovano June 10 at 7:30 PM THE KAYE PLAYHOUSE AT HUNTER COLLEGE East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues Tickets are now available online ($35 and $55). Student and senior tickets available for $20. Join us for a special evening featuring Five-time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves along with Grammy Award winning saxophonist Joe Lovano. We are honoring legendary bassist Reggie Workman with the Legends of Jazz Award and acclaimed filmmaker Albert Maysles (in memoriam) and the Maysles Institute with the Jazz and Community Leadership Award. The host for the evening will be WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton.  You can purchase online tickets HERE.  Corporate and private sponsorships currently available. Please click here for more information.  Become a Member of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem  Special Offer: Support The National Jazz Museum in Harlem today and receive discount on tickets to our June 10, 2105 Benefit Concert featuring Dianne Reeves. Renew/Become a member at the Minton's Playhouse level ($75), and above, by May 22nd and receive a discount on tickets for our  June 10th Benefit Concert, featuring Dianne Reeves. Join our community of jazz lovers today!  Join Here From Our Friends at Film Forum JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY and SYNCOPATION - Movie Double Feature! Enjoy this special offer from FILM FORUM (209 W. Houston St.) and join us for a Jazz double feature. Admission price of $13 will get you into both films. ($7.50 if you're a member of Film Forum) JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY is a program of nine newly-restored shorts from the 1920's and 1930's featuring giants of 20th century jazz and blues, including St. Louis Blues (1929) with Bessie Smith; Black and Tan Fantasy (1929), with Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington; Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932), with Louis Armstrong; Symphony in Black (1935), with Ellington and Billie Holiday; and more!  The 8:10 screening will have a special introduction by Jazz Historian and columnistt Will Friedwald. SYNCOPATION (1942) is a musical saga tracing jazz's evolution from Dixieland and ragtime right into the swing era, as Adolphe Menjou, George Bancroft, and Todd Duncan (Gershwin's original "Porgy") look on. Featuring cameos by Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, and Joe Venuti. Showtimes: JAZZ ON A SPRING DAY: 12:30PM, 4:20PM and 8:10PM*  *The 8:10 show will be introduced by Jazz historian and columnist Will Friedwald SYNCOPATION: 2:30PM, 6:20PM, 10:20PM Current Exhibit  Bebo Valdés: Giant of Cuban Music    Pianist, arranger, bandleader, and composer Bebo Valdés had two splendid careers separated by more than thirty years of obscurity. Mambo, filin, batanga, descarga - he was a great innovator in Cuba music. For ten years he was music director of the famed Tropicana orchestra. His big band backed Cuba's greatest stars. He was the pianist on Nat "King" Cole's famed Havana recordings. Then everything changed. He left Cuba in 1960 and settled in Sweden. While his music was largely forgotten by the world, his son Chucho Valdés became a dominant musical figure in post-revolutionary Cuba, and one of the world's great pianists. Then, beginning in 1994, Bebo Valdés began a dramatic career resurgence via a brilliant series of concerts, recordings, and movies that brought his knowledge, skills, and inimitable style into the twenty-first century, making him a bigger star than every before and culminating in an electrifying series of collaborations with Chucho. We'll tell the story and play the music....   Stay Connected All programs are free unless noted otherwise. These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State.  Come Visit Us!     The National Jazz Museum in Harlem's Visitors Center is open to the public and features our extensive library of all sorts of media, plus brand new collections of photographs, and exhibits. Please come by and see us from Monday to Friday from 10AM to 4PM. We look forward to seeing you! The Jazz Museum in Harlem is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. All donations are fully tax deductible. Copyright © 2015 The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. All Rights Reserved.

HISTORICAL NEWS JOURNAL

February, 1778


"Restless Property"
Not Very Valuable

     The following ad, placed in
the Maryland Gazette, indicates
that "restless" slaves are not
valuable property.
FOR SALE: Healthy young
Negro. Has worked twelve years
in a merchant mill, and is complete
in that business. No other motive
than his having attempted to escape
to the enemy induces the proprietor
to dispose of him.
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Letters to the Editor

Sir:... I am one of that unfortunate race of 
men, distinguished from the rest of the
human species by a black skin and wooly
hair.
     Can it be, that a difference of color
alone can constitute a difference of species?
     To attempt to escape from the cruelties
exercised over us, is punished sometimes
with death.
     And yet I learn from writers that 
"master" and "slave" are in a state of war.
     But, when a Negro feels the wrongs of his
brothers and attempts to revenge them, I see
him treated as the most horrible of mankind.
     Do the rights of nature cease to be when
a Negro is to enjoy them? Why is patriotism,
in the heart of an African, called treason?

                                       From a free Negro
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DO NOT USE
     SUGAR
    OR OTHER
PRODUCTS OF
SLAVE LABOR
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***The preceding were actual newspaper articles.

AS A MATTER OF FACT!

 The arrival of a slave ship in a city was a great event. The town crier hurried through the streets shouting the news. The local paper printed it. People hurried to see the new slaves.

HIS STORY PART IV

   
     "It was dangerous to stay below decks. The air was so foul. It was unbearably hot. Many slaves became sick and died. The shrieks of the women and the groans of the dying were horrible."

In his narrative, Olaudah Equiano tells what it was like to become a slave.

BLACK HISTORY QUIZ

DID YOU KNOW?...A NATION OF ISLAM MINISTER AT ONE TIME, HE WAS ASSASSINATED  WHILE GIVING A SPEECH IN 1965.
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CAN YOU NAME THAT PERSON?

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Answer to previous quiz(5/15/15) SHIRLEY CHISHOLM

To learn more about this Community Creator GOOGLE her name.