Today We Honor Lee Morgen

Lee Morgan was one of hard bop’s greatest trumpeters, and indeed one of the finest players of the ‘60s. An all-around master of his instrument modeled after Clifford Brown, Morgan boasted an effortless, virtuosic technique and a full, supple, muscular tone that was just as powerful in the high register.

His playing was always emotionally charged, regardless of the specific mood: cocky and exuberant on uptempo groovers, blistering on bop-oriented technical showcases, sweet and sensitive on ballads.

In his early days as a teen prodigy, Morgan was a busy soloist with a taste for long, graceful lines, and honed his personal style while serving an apprenticeship in both Dizzy Gillespie’s big band and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

Due to the crossover success of “The Sidewinder” in a rapidly changing pop music market, Blue Note encouraged its other artists to emulate the tune’s “boogaloo” beat. Morgan himself repeated the formula several times with compositions such as “Cornbread” (from the eponymous album Cornbread) and “Yes I Can, No You Can’t” on The Gigolo.

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“For my family, my strength.

For my comrades, my light.

For the sisters and brothers whose fighting spirit was my liberator.

For those who humanity is too far to be destroyed by walls, bars, and death houses.

And especially for those who are going to struggle until racism and class injustice are forever banished from our history.” - Angela Davis

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Today In History

Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson on this date June 13, 1967. Marshall became the Supreme Court’s first African American Associate Justice.

After graduating from Howard University, Marshall became a staff lawyer under Houston for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); in 1938 he became the lead chair in the legal office of the NAACP, and two years later he was named chief of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which declared unconstitutional racial segregation in American public schools.

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Today In History

The Supremes scored their fifth consecutive US No.1 single (they were the first American group to accomplish this feat), when ‘Back In My Arms Again’, went to the top of the charts.

Not only were the Supremes the Motown label’s primary crossover act, they also helped change the public image of African Americans during the civil rights era. With their sequined evening gowns and the sophisticated pop-soul swing given them by the songwriting-production team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland from 1964 to 1967.

Indeed, the youth of America learned many of its first lessons about racial equality from teen magazines that documented every hyperglamourized move the Supremes made as they went from topping the pop chart to appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show to sold-out Las Vegas, Nevada, bookings.

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Today In History

Hazel Dorothy Scott, famed pianist and singer, was born in Trinidad on this date June 11, 1920.

She was active as a jazz singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950, she became the first black American to host her own TV show, The Hazel Scott Show.

Scott is famous for her use of “swing” in classical music. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. Scott used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film.

Hazel Scott was not only the first Black American woman to host her own television show, but she also bravely stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Hollywood studio machine. The gifted and popular performer dazzled audiences in the U.S. and abroad with her jazzy renditions of classical works.

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Today In History

Hattie McDaniel, actress who starred in an Oscar winning role as “Mammy” in Gone with the Wind, was born in Wichita, KS, on this date June 10, 1898.

By the mid-1920s, Hattie McDaniel became one of the first African American women to perform on radio. In 1934, she landed her on-screen break in the film Judge Priest. She then became the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940, for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.

She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006 she became the first Black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp.

In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.

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Today We Honor Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro—an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists.

Locke is best known as a theorist, critic, and interpreter of African-American literature and art. He was also a creative and systematic philosopher who developed theories of value, pluralism and cultural relativism that informed and were reinforced by his work on aesthetics.

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“I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.” - Nina Simone

“Southern trees

Bearing strange fruit

Blood on the leaves

And blood at the roots

Black bodies

Swinging in the Southern breeze

Strange fruit hangin’

From the poplar trees

Pastoral scene

Of the gallant south

Them big, bulging eyes

And the twisted mouth

Scent of magnolia

Clean and fresh

Then, the sudden smell

Of burnin’ flesh

Here is a fruit

For the crows to pluck

For the rain to gather

For the wind to suck

For the sun to rot

For the leaves to drop

Here is

Strange and bitter crop” - Strange Fruit

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Today We Honor Clarence Williams III

Clarence Williams lll was an amazing actor who starred as Linc Hayes, the hit ABC show “The Mod Squad,” which ran from 1968 to 1973, was one of the first of its kind — a prime-time network series.

Although “The Mod Squad” made Mr. Williams a symbol of the Vietnam War generation, he actually served in the military just before that era. He was a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division in the late 1950s.

He played Prince’s father in “Purple Rain” (1984) and Wesley Snipes’s father in “Sugar Hill” (1993). Williams lll was a crazed blackmailer in John Frankenheimer’s “52 Pick-Up” (1986) and a wild-eyed storytelling mortician in “Tales From the Hood” (1995). He had small roles in “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” (1988) and in Norman Mailer’s “Tough Guys Don’t Dance” (1987).

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Today We Honor Diahann Carroll

A television and stage actress and singer. Diahann Carroll has had a long, successful career that has expanded through 5 decades.

Appearing in Carmen Jones (1954), Porgy and Bess (1959), Julia (1968) one of the first series on American television to star a black woman in a non-stereotypical role, and Claudine (1974) to name a few.

Later she created the role of Dominique Deveraux on the popular prime time soap opera, Dynasty.

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Today We Honor Martin & Coretta

Marriage & Movement: It’s what made this couple’s union so special.

Coretta once said, “After we married, we moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where my husband had accepted an invitation to be the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Before long, we found ourselves in the middle of the Montgomery bus boycott, and Martin was elected leader of the protest movement. As the boycott continued, I had a growing sense that I was involved in something so much greater than myself, something of profound historic importance.

I came to the realization that we had been thrust into the forefront of a movement to liberate oppressed people, not only in Montgomery but also throughout our country, and this movement had worldwide implications. I felt blessed to have been called to be a part of such a noble and historic cause.”

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We pledge allegiance to those taken from their home and sold by their own… For those who traveled alone, didn’t make it and thrown… For those who educated their own, because they were left to be unknown… Your fight and struggle for my rights will never be forgotten; instead it will be etched in stone… We pledge allegiance to our ancestors as the flag is held high… You will never be forgotten… Your history will be told followed with questions of WHY? - CARTER™️ Magazine

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“You’re suppose to be innocent until proven guilty, but the way the system is, you’re guilty into proven innocent.” - Kalief Browder @kaliefbrowderfoundation

The Kalief Browder Foundation (KBF) works to dismantle the system(s) that keep poor disenfranchised communities mentally, physically and emotionally in the struggle.

Their strategies support youth and young adults, typically in middle/ high school and college, who are ‘At Risk’ and negatively impacted by systemic oppression. The KBF offers mitigation support, advocacy and consultation in a full circle approach.

Show your support today by visiting the KBF website to learn more and making a supportive contribution.

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Today In History

Harriet Tubman, author, and engineer of the Underground Railroad, led Union Army guerillas into South Carolina on this date June 2 1863.

Tubman was the first woman in U.S. history to command an armed military raid.

After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad.

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“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.” - Muhammad Ali

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