Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism
Healing Racial Trauma
Below is a 6:30 video showing a segment from Lenard McKelvey’s Comedy Central show Tha God’s Honest Truth. He’s taken the performance name Charlamagne Tha God, which explains the name of his comedy show, which sometimes takes on topics not … Continue reading
Posted in Diversity & Multiculturalism, Music & Media Podcasts, Social Change
Tagged Charlamagne tha God, DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Third Editionl, Joy DeGruy, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, PTSD, racial trauma, Resmaa Menakem
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Jazz as Art, Jazz as Cool
The Video/Audio below is an excerpt from the 11th show of my radio series Voices and Freedoms: A History of Jazz, based on my 1976 book of the same name. This show focuses on the transition from Bop to Cool … Continue reading
Be-Bop, Re-Bop: Bop
The Video/Audio below is an excerpt from the 10th show of my radio series Voices and Freedoms: A History of Jazz, based on my 1976 book of the same name. This focuses on one of the greatest revolutions in jazz: … Continue reading