Malcolm, Marcus, Marley and Martin: A look at connections between four icons of Keyamsha, the Awakening
Malcolm X…Marcus Garvey…Bob Marley…Martin Luther King, Jr. Those four names are synonymous with Keyamsha, the Awakening. Interestingly, their names all have the letter “M.” In this post we look at several facts that connect these men. What led to such connections? Coincidence? Synchronicity? Fate? Destiny? Something we can not begin to comprehend? All of the above?
We start with the first and…
This website by the National World War I Museum & Memorial explores the history of the 1919 Red Summer.
Notice that while the article mentions the Jim Crow Era as a minor detail , the presentation of the history lacks more contextualization with the social and economic conditions of legalized segregation and systemic racism in the United States at the time.
The article also doesn't mention that in 1915 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson supported white supremacists such as the Klu Klux Klan and their recruitment efforts.
But the article does provide a good introduction to the history.
Red Summer starts with party and college kids on their way to something like a summer or spring break. Pretty standard set up. Yellow filter on the film to give us more summery look, and a nice overexposed foreign setting with a bad dub.
They get lost and find a man hurt in the middle of the road. I need directions to an old abandonedish mill which is giving me serious Texas chainsaw vibes.…
I love their cover of 1,200 Balloons, Dalmatians, and Miles.
Supergroup [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
[Ponytail, Cueball, Megan, Knit Cap, and Hairy are in line at a theatre box office, the marquee above announcing "Playing Tonight The New Supergroup: 176 Pilots, Seconds of Summer, Non Blondes, Live Crew, gecs, Doors Down, Inch Nails, Republic, Direction, and Seconds to Mars".]
reblog this and tag with a food you no longer have access to (closed restaurant, state you moved away from, ex’s mom’s cooking, etc) that will haunt you until your dying day, mine are the spicy chicken sandwich on the employee menu at the fine dining restaurant I was a prep cook at, and the onion bagel from the kosher place down the street from my house when I lived in the city
Malcolm, Marcus, Marley and Martin: A look at connections between four icons of Keyamsha, the Awakening
Malcolm X…Marcus Garvey…Bob Marley…Martin Luther King, Jr. Those four names are synonymous with Keyamsha, the Awakening. Interestingly, their names all have the letter “M.” In this post we look at several facts that connect these men. What led to such connections? Coincidence? Synchronicity? Fate? Destiny? Something we can not begin to comprehend? All of the above?
We start with the first and…