Barry Jenkins, Director, Moonlight: The first time I heard “Every Nigger Is a Star,” like most people, was on Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly. A lot of the music in the film was actually written into the screenplay, but this was not. We were going through post-production and I felt like we had to rage […]
Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain, with the rain in Shambala, Wash away my sorrow, wash away my shame, with the rain in Shambala Everyone is helpful, everyone is kind, on the road to Shambala. Everyone is lucky, everyone is so kind, on the road to Shambala. How does your light shine, in […]
One way to understand Black Lives Matters: “The movement is a rhythm to us, Freedom is like religion to us, Justice is juxtapositionin’ us, Justice for all just ain’t specific enough”. Our first two-suggester song. Thanks Nadine and Stephanie.
From history.com: If the legendary gospel vocalist Mahalia Jackson had been somewhere other than the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on this day in 1963, her place in history would still have been assured purely on the basis of her musical legacy. But it is almost impossible to imagine Mahalia Jackson having been anywhere other […]
