Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Afro-Lisbon and The Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Towards The Future




Afro-Lisbon and The Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Towards The Future

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Hello Imani,

A year-end message from our fearless leader Sean Barlow:

2015 proved a singular year for Afropop Worldwide. We won the highly prestigious Institutional Peabody Award for 27 years of excellence in storytelling. The Peabody organization said, "Afropop Worldwide is part dance party, part cultural anthropology seminar...For its pioneering role in the world music movement, for illuminating the richness and diversity of African and African diaspora cultures, for archiving and fortifying its work on afropop.org and simply for being a treat for the ears."  
 
Georges, Banning, Michael, Atane, CC, myself and everyone on the Afropop team thank our devoted audience for listening to our programs, viewing our features, reviews and photo essays on afropop.org, following our social media, and for caring about the artists and cultures we cover.
 
Once or twice a year, I ask you directly for your financial support to help us continue our vital work at the high level you expect. We are a lean and mean organization and we spend every donor dollar wisely. In 2016, you will hear our groundbreaking Hip Deep series continue. You will benefit from a major Web redesign focusing on mobile device compatibility. You will see our Afropop Archive Project progress, protecting our unique 30-year collection. 
 
Please make your contribution now while you're thinking about it. Thank you!
—Sean Barlow, Executive Producer


 
On air this week is our brand-new Hip Deep program "Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Towards the Future," produced by Sam Backer. In the last few years, a small network of DJs in the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal has been consistently producing some of the world's best dance music. The children of African immigrants, these young musicians have combined a hemisphere of musical influences and distilled them down into a single astonishing style. But how did Lisbon start to make such great African music? And what does that say about the identity of the city, or the country, or the continent? On this special Hip Deep edition, we take you on a journey to Lisbon, a city facing both the sea and 600 years of its own history. We'll go to African club nights, hang out with obsessive record collectors, learn how to dance kizomba, and visit the projects that have produced a musical revolution. And through it all, we will try to answer a seemingly simple question: Just where did this music come from?

Be sure to check out Sam's crucial cuts from the Lusophone world feature.

2015 has been a great year for Ghanaian reggae musician Rocky Dawuni. His album Branches of the Same Tree received a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album. Banning Eyre recently met up with Rocky in Harlem for a chat. Check it out.

Ben Richmond interviewed filmmaker John Bosch on his latest film Malian Pieces: Stories From A Rich Country that he is currently crowdfunding for.

Morgan Greenstreet wrote about Burkinabe rapper Art Melody's new video "Wagare Hip-Hop." It's a sharp and aggressive track from his new album Moogho.

Our latest "Best of The Beat on Afropop" feature is the first installment in a mini-series of the magazine's coverage of the development of reggae in Africa. This edition includes George Zawonu's early report from 1984 on the establishment and growth of reggae in Ghana, in addition to Tom Cheyney's "The African Reggae Phenomenon" from 1991. Stay tuned for features to come that will focus on African reggae stars like Lucky Dube, Alpha Blondy and Majek Fashek.

Afropop honors and remembers South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was born on this date, Dec. 18, 1946. We decided to run a special "Best of The Beat on Afropop" feature commemorating his life.

For New Yorkers, M'Bolo led by Senegalese singer Cheikh Ngom appears at the Shrine on Dec. 19. The Pedrito Martinez Group performs at Subrosa on Dec. 21. Malian musician Makane Kouyate is at the Shrine on Dec. 26. Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona plays Club Bonafide on Dec. 31, New Year's Eve. Malian songbird Awa Sangho takes the stage at SOB's on Jan. 14. Congolese singer Pierre Kwenders entertains at Lincoln Center on Jan. 14, and Drom on Jan. 15. Sudanese band Alsarah and the Nubatones, along with Ethiopian groove collective Debo Band, perform at Drom on Jan. 16.

Have a lovely weekend!

Cheers,

Atane and the Afropop Crew

Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic

 

Support Afropop's Peabody Award-Winning Work!

BOTBOA: Reggae in Africa

In Conversation with Rocky Dawuni

Art Melody - Wagare Hip-Hop

Q&A with John Bosch

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Monday, December 21, 2015

Father's 1st Fruits Kwanzaa Event - NIA Fest 2015

Contact 757-932-0177 or email positivevibesdjs@gmail for 
Performance / exhibitor / vendor / sponsor information !

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

2015 Kwanzaa Events in Hampton Roads Virginia (757)

2015 Kwanzaa events in the 757
Portsmouth 12/26 - Children's Museum of VA. 12-4pm Atumpan The Talking Drum

Norfolk 12/26 Slover Public Library 6-8pm. Atumpan The Talking Drum

Norfolk 12/28 Pretlow Public Library  4:30pm

Va. Beach - 12/30 - NIA Fest - Va Beach Boys & Girls Club. 6-9pm Positive Vibes (http://www.positivevibes.net/)
    5:30 pm - Learn how to become a Foster Parent
    5:30 pm - Learn how to go to college for FREE !!
    5:30 pm - Watch the 7:00 movie
    6:00 pm - Vendors and other NIA Fest Activities
    VENDORS WANTED ! (Call 757-932-0177)

Newport News 1/1 - YWCA 2702 Orcutt Ave. 2-4pm The Sophisticated Ladies

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Monday, December 14, 2015

December 30th Kwanzaa Event - NIA Fest 2015

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Join NIA's Text Team - December 30, 2015 at NIA Fest #niafest #niafest757 #757niafest

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See the "7 am" movie !!!!!
Wednesday December 30th, 2015
5:30 pm - Va. Beach Boys & Girls Club
Your $2 donation benefits Boys & Girls
Followed by The 2015 NIA Fest
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Kwanzaa Events in Hampton Roads Virginia

 
Kwanzaa events in the 757
Portsmouth 12/26 - Children's Museum of VA. 12-4pm Atumpan The Talking Drum

Norfolk 12/26 Slover Public Library 6-8pm. Atumpan The Talking Drum

Norfolk 12/28 Pretlow Public Library  4:30pm

Va. Beach - 12/30 - NIA Fest - Va Beach Boys & Girls Club. 6-9pm Positive Vibes (http://www.positivevibes.net/)
    5:30 pm - Learn how to become a Foster Parent
    5:30 pm - Learn how to go to college for FREE !!
    5:30 pm - Watch the 7:00 movie
    6:00 pm - Vendors and other NIA Fest Activities
    VENDORS WANTED ! (Call 757-932-0177)

Newport News 1/1 - YWCA 2702 Orcutt Ave. 2-4pm The Sophisticated Ladies

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Monday, December 7, 2015

NIA Fest 2015 ! The Father's First Fruits Kwanzaa Celebration in Virginia Beach, VA

Contact 757-932-0177 or email positivevibesdjs@gmail for 
Performance / exhibitor / vendor / sponsor information !

Friday, December 4, 2015

Watch the 7am Movie December 30, 2015 at NIA Fest #niafest #niafest757 #757niafest

All conscious people must see this movie !
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Positive Vibes Afrikan Literature presents:
See the "7 am" movie !!!!!
Wednesday December 30th, 2015
5:30 pm - Va. Beach Boys & Girls Club
Your $2 donation benefits Boys & Girls
Followed by The 2015 NIA Fest
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Save the date....December 30th.. Kwanzaa is coming ! NIA Fest 2015

Save the date...... Kwanzaa is coming !
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Monday, November 30, 2015

Vendors sought - December 30th NIA Fest in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Contact 757-932-0177 or email positivevibesdjs@gmail for 
Performance / exhibitor / vendor / sponsor information !

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Thanks(for)getting the Origin of Thanksgiving

Hetepu (Peace & Blessings) All,

Many feel Thanks(for)killing  poses no threat, labeling it as a harmless day we’re off from work to come together and stuff our bodies with impure, toxic, flesh-decaying products in the name of family.  What is Thanks(for)killing and is there an AfRAkan alternative to it?  More importantly, what is the history of Thanks(for)killing, who am I really thanking, and what part of “HIS-STORY” am I forgetting (or ignoring)?

Are you ready, do you want to stay blind, hopefully you can handle the truth and do what’s right afterwards? 

But, before I go into the HIS-STORY of Thanks(for)killing , I want you to check this video out that I took a few years back from the Slave Dungeons in Cape Coast, Ghana AfRAka entailing the treachery “OUR” ANKHcestors went through.  Realize...when you celebrate the horrible European Hollow-Day called  thanksgiving you are literally spitting in your ANKHcestors face … don’t get mad the truth is the truth.

SLAVE DUNGEON intro … click the video or paste and place link in browser:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAb54J1IzDY
(Feel  free to watch the other parts as well)

“If you continue to honor traditional wayz even though its founding is based on treachery, you do nothin’ but dishonor the victimz of this tradition.”
                 M’bwebe aja ishangi

NOW … LET’S GO BACK …
by M’bwebe aja ishangi: 
http://daghettotymz.com/rkyvz/articles/thanks/thanks.html
From the beginning of my adolescent sentence into the "reprogramming system" aka public schoolz, I was told the so-called "native" americanz and the pilgrimz shared a mutually respective relationship. I was also, "programmed" to believe the "natives" were the first in the americaz, shattering any possibility of ever perceiving the historical fact of my Afrikan Ancestorz being here first and therefore the true "natives".

I was coerced to believe the pilgrim was as generous as the natives were, which is allegedly symbolic for the celebration many of us ignorantly celebrate each 3rd Thursday in November.

By the age of 5, my mind had already been momentarily held in captivity, lasting the first 20 yearz of my natural life. A possession the likes of this seldom lose its contagious hold. Mainly because this spell eliminated my questioning of the real story behind thanksgiving as I drew turkeyz from the outstretched fingerz of my left hand as a child. I never asked my momz why eating pig intestines (chitterlingz) and buttocks (ham) was at an all-time high around this time of year. I never asked where were the black people while the natives and pilgrimz was gettin' they eat on. It didn't matter then, all I cared about was buggin' with my cousinz and eating literally like a pig, until I couldn't eat no more...

That was then. Then, I didn't inquire about any Afrikan alternative to thanksgiving because I thought it was Afrikan, or rather, Black! After all, my family is Black! But there was no one there to tell me the flipside to man-made hallow-daze (holidayz) I grown to be so fond of.

But as adults, we must realize we are accountable for everything we allow to be part of our lives and families. This accountability is essential if we are to break the chain of customz that dishonor our Ancestorz as well as pass on the madness to our children...I repeat pass on the madness to our children.

From the origin of black organizationz to the many hallow-daze we celebrate. In this piece, we'll focus on the fallacy behind Thanksgiving.

There are three levels of thinking author Tony Browder talks of… They are:

1) Literal — one who accepts without question something told to them;
2) Influential — one who is able to see the underlying message or detect ill subliminalz; and
3) Evaluative — one who is able to not only see the subliminal, but is able to combat it with a deeper meaning and eventual solution/alternative to what is presented to them.

Take a moment before readin' on and decide what kind of thinker you are. This is important because what you read from here you'll be faced with determining if you're really who you say you are...

"At the first thanksgiving celebration in 1621, there were only 6-7 sane people left in the whole pilgrim colony. The rest were basically mentally gone.”
             — Captain John Smith
Click here to read the full article:
http://daghettotymz.com/rkyvz/articles/thanks/thanks.html
Asar Maa Ra Gray
Nehast (Wake-up)

Sunday, November 15, 2015

“ADOPT AND PASS URLEIA” - URLEIA addresses the root cause of police brutality in black communities

MAKE YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE HEAR YOU WHEN YOU SAY, "ADOPT AND PASS URLEIA"

Lobby congressional leaders for URLEIA on November 17th. Here's how:

"URLEIA addresses the root cause of police brutality in black communities by holding law enforcement agents accountable for the actions and sealing loopholes that currently allow perpetrators of police brutality to walk free," Ms. Sanders continues, "URLEIA is the type of tough legislation Black Americans have been demanding in order to bring a permanent end to centuries of police brutality and abuse."
Blacks In Government (BIG)–a national organization of African American government workers at the Federal, state and local level–passed a resolution endorsing the Uniform Reporting Law Enforcement Improvement Act (URLEIA) legislative proposal drafted by Onus, Inc. BIG passed the resolution at its national convention recently held in Orlando, Florida. BIG is sending copies of the resolution President Obama and members of the U.S. Congress
BIG is a member of the Black Leadership Forum (BLF), which is a coalition of organizations that meet monthly with representatives of the Obama White House. Ebony Magazines has repeatedly listed BIG as among America's 150 Most Influential Black Organizations in America.
ONUS, Inc., has declared Nov. 17th as the National Day of Lobbying for URLEIA (The Uniform Reporting Law Enforcement Improvement Act. The goal of the day-long lobbying effort is to identify a sponsor and co-sponsors for URLEIA. When preparing to lobby on the Nov. 17th,  decide if you are going to lobby alone or lobby with a group. Also decide if you are going to lobby congressional offices in Washington, D.C., or congressional offices in your local community. (Read how a bill becomes law.)

Voting Rights Restored, Get Healthcare, Become Better Fathers - Virginia Beach, VA: 11-16-2015 Monday's Daddyman 2015 Conference

Beloved,


    Along with 5 excellent workshops for Fathers (and Mothers) who are having challenges with their parenthood in tomorrow's Daddyman 2015 Conference, We will have staff and materials onsite to assist people (without cost) who want to get their voting rights restored and people who need to register for "ObamaCare". Every service will be provided for no cost, including the conference. Spread the word and BRING SOMEONE !

FREE
Daddyman 2015 Conference
6pm - 8:30 pm Monday 11-16-2015
Green Run High School, Virginia Beach, VA
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Friday, November 6, 2015

"The Film Black Friday Focuses on Economic Empowerment for African Americans", Podcast from The Michael Imhotep Show


Hello

Listen to the podcast of "The Film Black Friday Focuses on Economic Empowerment for African Americans" from "The Michael Imhotep Show", Thur. Nov. 5th, 2015 at http://tobtr.com/s/8052691 or www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com.



Listen to "The Michael Imhotep Show", Monday – Friday, 10pm-12midnight EST with host Michael Imhotep of The African History Network. Listen to the show online at http://tunein.com/radio/Empowerment-Radio-Network-s199313/ or by downloading the "TuneIn Radio" app to your smartphone and search for "Empowerment Radio Network" or at www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com for the podcasts.  Call in with Questions/Comments at 1-888-669-2281.


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