To Matilda Mokoto Holmes on Her Birth

To Matilda Mokoto Holmes on Your Birth May 31, 2020 I understand you can’t read this.   You have been very busy getting born, learning how to breathe and such.   Hopefully your mother will keep a copy

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Sunshine of Your Love—Murfin Home Confinement Music Festival 2020

Sunshine of Your Love by Cream. And now in honor of a glorious sunny dayhereabouts, something completely different, psychedelic, loud we present Sunshine of Your Love from 1967 by what some consider t

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Race War in America—Running the N*ggas Out of Tulsa

Chicago’s Memorial Day Massacre—A Bloody Walk on a Prairie

The Memorial Day Massacre-- American Tragedy, 1937 , by Philip Evergood was based on a press photograph. Eighty three years ago today it was hot and muggy in Chicago.   But the sun was shining brillia

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Strange Fruit—Murfin Home Confinement Music Festival 2020

Strange Fruit sung by Billie Holiday We interrupt our Home Confinement Music Festival to take sad and outraged note of another deadly plague—the lynching of Blacks and other people of color due to liv

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