28 Days Of Black History

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For the last and the Leap Year Day of Black History Month 2020, I'm tossing out ten now Unsung Black Music joints from back in the day that I could fit in, complete with YouTube links. All genres, all Black. No Prince jawns from me here, he's eternal and would consume a year's worth of threading. This will be stuff likely only a select few here know of and has grooved off of, all of which I still keep 'pon replay. By no means comprehensive, these are just fave joints I tossed of my head at the spur of the moment or was bopping to recently. I invite you to do so too if you have your selects and keep the flow going.

Peace and celebrate Black History all year 'round!


The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzxwZ6wjDAM


Hashim - Al Naafiysh (The Soul)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46sF1PcqL8


E.U. (Experience Unlimited) - Da Butt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FShE0VifCYs


Alice Coltrane ft. Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQtEFdyhgdE


Cybotron - R9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDWeIGEj96s


Starpoint - What You've Been Missin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIStcxGmtpg


Fonda Rae - Touch Me (All Night Long)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3bIJK0rg68

Freestyle Club Remix (the better version IMO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4LaNhtePk


Wey U - Chanté Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLnOGRN14nE


J Dilla - Donuts

(the full album is one long mixed track - a fucking certified classic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nO7IA1DeeI&list=PL9dk_xtWpAkKXxzv_TfLWmlJj6G3quWQ2


Junior - Mama Used To Say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPzxQgwyqoE

 

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"The greatest Black Briiton"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Seacole

Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant; 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881) was a British-Jamaican nurse, healer and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described this as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers", and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield, and nursed many of them back to health. Coming from a tradition of Jamaican and West African "doctresses", Seacole displayed "compassion, skills and bravery while nursing soldiers during the Crimean War", through the use of herbal remedies. She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004, she was voted the greatest black Briton.

Unfortunately, some current supporters of Florence Nightingale tend to diminish Mary's achievements because they feel Mary takes credit away from Florence Nightingale. In reality, it doesn't. They were both remarkable women who fought the British Establishment. Florence Nightingale's influence was longer and greater because she had contacts that could get things done, which Mary didn't have.

 

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Not just a single person

 

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ELEANOR J. WILLIAMS First African American Air Traffic Controller

 

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Godmother of Rock and Roll

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was there before Elvis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. It was Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, who turned this burgeoning musical style into an international sensation."


Forebears: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Godmother Of Rock 'N' Roll

 

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For the last and the Leap Year Day of Black History Month 2020, I'm tossing out ten now Unsung Black Music joints from back in the day that I could fit in, complete with YouTube links. All genres, all Black. No Prince jawns from me here, he's eternal and would consume a year's worth of threading. This will be stuff likely only a select few here know of and has grooved off of, all of which I still keep 'pon replay. By no means comprehensive, these are just fave joints I tossed of my head at the spur of the moment or was bopping to recently. I invite you to do so too if you have your selects and keep the flow going.

Peace and celebrate Black History all year 'round!


The Jones Girls - Nights Over Egypt

Oooo, my favorite song by the Jones Girls is "You're gonna make me love somebody else". Sick ass bass!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRVA2GJMc0

 

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Oooo, my favorite song by the Jones Girls is "You're gonna make me love somebody else". Sick ass bass!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRVA2GJMc0

Yeah, that bassline IS sick. I remember somebody sampling a part of it in something and I can't remember the track. It's in one of my mixtapes somewhere!

 

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Thank you for posting these, including a few amazing people I had never heard of.

 

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Lieutenant General Stayce D. Harris, first African American female three-star general.

Lt.Gen. Harris currently serves as the Inspector General of the Air Force. She commissioned through the University of Southern California's Air Force ROTC program in 1981 and served in the active component until joining the Air Force Reserves in 1991. She's cataloged more than 2,500 hours in a military aircraft and flown a C-130H, KC-135R, C-141B/C, T-38 and T-37.

 

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Lt. Commander (Sel.) La’Shanda Holmes, U.S. Coast Guard, first female African American helicopter pilot.

A graduate of Spelman College, a historically black college, LTJG. Holmes received her aviator wings in 2010. During her ceremony, she was pinned by Lt. Jeanine Menze, the first African American female aviator in the Coast Guard. She has managed over 6,800 flight hours for the MH-65 and was appointed to the 2015-2016 class of White House Fellows.

 

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Brigadier General Lorna Mahlock, first black female Marine briadier general

In 2018, the Marine Corps announed then Col. Mahlock was slated to become the first black, female one-star general. She enlisted in 1985 and according to Business Insider, commissioned as an air traffic controller in 1991 and deployed three times with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 38.

 

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