Craig Harris

🌟 Trombonist, composer, music director celebrating 50 years as a musician. Started playing with #SunRa in '76. Co-composer for #JudasAndTheBlackMessiah film.

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FOR YOUR #GRAMMY CONSIDERATION! @RecordingAcad GRAMMY Voting Members:
We ask that you vote "Managing the Mask" by #CraigHarris as "BEST INSTRUMENTAL JAZZ ALBUM." Voting ends SUN (10/23/22).
Listen: https://t.co/N9WkFMW8pC

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[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Dorothy Boggess and Velma Long, both 109, have been friends since they were 23 years old. They met during World War II as “Rosie the Riveters” and have lived near each other in D.C. since. https://t.co/MXwi4MS5xM

[New York Amsterdam News @NYAmNews]

Today we honor late actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer Melvin Van Peebles on what would have been his 94th birthday.

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

The erasure and suppression of histories is a systematic undertaking. We are weathering one now — banning books, altering school curricula, pressuring museums, removing historical markers, etc, etc, etc. @PoliticsNation

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Check out Ronnie Burrage's video! #TikTok https://t.co/mCoq5hOXiw

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

A real photo of Trump passed out at Lindsey Graham’s funeral today. Something is very, very wrong. Impeach and remove ASAP.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., said Black Americans are “outraged at what is happening now with these efforts to do away with the African American museum and all of the Smithsonian,” during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing Tuesday.

“If you erase it, we will replace it,” Mfume said. “It’s that damn simple.”

In his comments, Mfume quoted former President Abraham Lincoln and said “history taught us and still teaches us that we can't keep making the same mistakes.”

Mfume said he sat at the hearing “as a Black man who grew up in segregation, who wasn't allowed to go certain places, who drank from a water fountain that said colored, who found his mother and his father unable to do anything other than basic day work.”

“We will not let you destroy that museum. No matter how long it takes, how many battles are required, how much effort is needed, we will not allow that to happen,” Mfume said. “Unless you find a way to kill all of us and walk over our bodies to change history.”

The hearing focused on the way the Smithsonian Institution presents scholarship on U.S. history. In announcing the hearing, the Republican-led committee claimed that the “Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is promoting a narrow, politically tendentious agenda instead of seeking to instill in visitors an appreciation for America’s unique history as a beacon of liberty, democracy, and opportunity.”

In President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has sought to clamp down on how American history is framed in public spaces, removing exhibits from national parks on slavery and violence against Native Americans.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Dr. Joseph Robert, love the man who trained Marcus Garvey. He was a priest and also a doctor.. celebrate his life and memory.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

Esther Rolle risking her career to force America to include the image of a Black father…let that sink in for a sec.

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@AmeshAA Abs for life

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[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

“They call us savages because we have refused to be slaves. History will decide who the real savages are.”

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

“You will find more traitors than colonizers at the root of Africa’s suffering.” – Patrice Lumumba

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Thursday June 25th @ 7-8:15pm

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Check out AR19's video! #TikTok https://t.co/BqszQnCeXy