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The Reverend Dr. Dwight D. Andrews speaks with saxophonist, composer and educator Ralph "Buzzy" Jones about Jones' mentor and friend, fellow Detroiter. The great Yusef Lateef on the topic of spirituality and jazz.
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Rev. Ambassador Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born on March 12, 1932, in New Orleans. Louisiana.
Rev. Young is and has been an activist, diplomat, and politician.
He was a trusted leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
Rev. Young later became active in politics and served as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration, and 55th Mayor of Atlanta.
Ambassador Young has founded and served in many organizations working on issues concerning political lobbying and public policy.
Rev. Young became a member of the historical First Congregational Church of Atlanta in 1961 and the Church and its Pastor. Rev. Dr. Dwight D. Andrews. Spear headed a four day event at First Congregational in celebration of the 90th birthday of this great civil rights activist and icon. Ambassador Andrew J. Young.
You can view the full March 9th, 2022 event by clicking below.
Global Prayer Service for Peace and Reconciliation
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Charles Stanley Dutton (born January 30, 1951) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his roles in the television series Roc (1991–1994) and the television film The Piano Lesson (1995), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His other accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards.
Dutton has also appeared in many feature films such as Alien 3 (1992), Rudy (1993), Menace II Society (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), and Gothika (2003).
In 1984, Dutton made his Broadway debut in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, winning a Theatre World Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1988, Dutton played Leroy Brown in Crocodile Dundee II and a killer in the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan opposite Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey. In 1990, Dutton earned a second Best Actor Tony nomination for his role in another Wilson play, The Piano Lesson. Dutton co-starred in Alien 3, the debut film of director David Fincher, then co-starred in 1993's Rudy. Other films he has appeared in include Get on the Bus; A Time to Kill; Cookie's Fortune; Cry, the Beloved Country; Surviving the Game; Menace II Society; Secret Window; and A Low Down Dirty Shame.
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Charles Stanley Dutton (born January 30, 1951) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his roles in the television series Roc (1991–1994) and the television film The Piano Lesson (1995), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His other accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards.
Dutton has also appeared in many feature films such as Alien 3 (1992), Rudy (1993), Menace II Society (1993), A Time to Kill (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1999), and Gothika (2003).
In 1984, Dutton made his Broadway debut in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, winning a Theatre World Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1988, Dutton played Leroy Brown in Crocodile Dundee II and a killer in the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan opposite Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey. In 1990, Dutton earned a second Best Actor Tony nomination for his role in another Wilson play, The Piano Lesson. Dutton co-starred in Alien 3, the debut film of director David Fincher, then co-starred in 1993's Rudy. Other films he has appeared in include Get on the Bus; A Time to Kill; Cookie's Fortune; Cry, the Beloved Country; Surviving the Game; Menace II Society; Secret Window; and A Low Down Dirty Shame.
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John J. Mearsheimer is a R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
Mearsheimer an international relations theorist. More specifically, a realist, which means that he believes that the great powers dominate the international system and they constantly engage in security competition with each other, which sometimes leads to war.
Although he has dedicated his life to scholarship, he also has tried to engage in the policy debates of the day. For example, he is one of the most outspoken opponents of the 2003 Iraq War before it happened. He believed that social science theories are invaluable for making and analyzing foreign policy. Learn more about John J. Mearsheimer at his website.
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John J. Mearsheimer is a R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982.
Mearsheimer an international relations theorist. More specifically, a realist, which means that he believes that the great powers dominate the international system and they constantly engage in security competition with each other, which sometimes leads to war.
Although he has dedicated his life to scholarship, he also has tried to engage in the policy debates of the day. For example, he is one of the most outspoken opponents of the 2003 Iraq War before it happened. He believed that social science theories are invaluable for making and analyzing foreign policy. Learn more about John J. Mearsheimer at his website
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Ling enjoys a Filipino kamayan feast in the first episode entitled "Mix Mix", of her series "Take Out With Lisa Ling".
Ling remarked "Oh my gosh, all of them. That Filipino kamayan, it was so delicious, and such a beautiful communal experience. I've been craving all of the food that was on that banana leaf."
The Manilamen of St. Malo The settlement’s namesake, Juan San Maló, was a leader of a group of Maroons runaway enslaved people who took refuge in the marshlands. The Asian pioneers of Saint Malo were the Filipino sailors and indentured servants who escaped the Spanish Galleons in the 1700s. They were later known in history as the Manilamen after the capital city of the Philippines.
Saint Malo was first established as a fishing village along the shores of Lake Borgne in Louisiana in the 18th century and continued to flourish until the 20th century.
The Manila Galleon Trade was a thriving global trade network between 1565 and 1815 that connected the economies of Asia, the Americas and Europe for over two centuries. During this period the Luzones Indios or natives of Luzon became vital in the biannual voyages of the Spanish Galleons across the Pacific. Luzon is the largest island of the Philippines where Manila is also located.
As early as the 16th century, many Filipino slaves, indentured servants, and sailors jumped ship and settled across land that is now Mexico and parts of the United States. They were placed under different racial categories that only added to their mystery. In Mexico they were often listed as Indios Chinos, while in Louisiana they were later known as the Manilamen.
According to oral traditions there was already an existing Filipino community in Saint Malo as early as 1763 when both the Philippines and Louisiana were under the Spanish colonial government in Mexico. However, the oldest known documented history of Saint Malo as a Filipino settlement only dates back to the 19th century. It was in 1883 when writer Lafcadio Hearn wrote about his journey to Saint Malo in an article for Harper’s Weekly magazine.
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Wendell Brock of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote,
That Carol Mitchell-Leon “In any role, her honesty was to the bone'
She could be fierce and intimidating onstage, coquettish and fun in real life. Her adoring students called her Mama Leon. Her acting colleagues remember how she'd wear street clothes under her costumes so she could bolt minutes after her bow.
Arriving in Atlanta in the mid-'70s to study at Clark Atlanta University, the Philadelphia native became a favorite of director Frank Wittow at the Academy Theatre.
Ms. Mitchell-Leon was married to actor, director, Kenny Leon during his reign at the Alliance Theatre.
As an actress, she did experimental work by Suzan-Lori Parks and new plays by Atlantan Pearl Cleage. She did classics: Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner," Alice Childress' "Trouble in Mind" and Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," .
Her film credits include “Fried Green Tomatoes” in 1991 “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” in 2005 and “Indlewild “ in 2006.
Mitchell-Leon felt like she was on the planet more to teach than to act and as an educator inspired her students to live a "useful life" .
And while Carol didn’t really enjoy doing interviews and relished her privacy, She graciously shared a few thoughts and perspectives with us in 2005 for our Detroit based television program, “Indie Film Cafe”
Carol had a deep reverence for the plays of August Wilson, which became a vehicle for her during the decade that her husband, Kenny Leon ran the Alliance theatre from 1987 to 1998.
Mitchell-Leon suffered from kidney problems for many years and had a kidney transplant in 1990. She suffered from complications after surgery in November of 2007.
During that procedure, her heart stopped beating for 13 minutes, and doctors said she would never regain consciousness. But opened her eyes that Thanksgiving morning of 2007.
Carol Mitchell-Leon passed away at Piedmont hospital on January 19, 2009.
We greatly appreciate her kindness. She was loved and of course will be truly missed.
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Ben Sidran has been a major force in the modern day history of jazz and rock & roll having played keyboards with or produced such artists as Steve Miller, Mose Allison, Diana Ross, Boz Scaggs, Phil Upchurch, Tony Williams, Jon Hendricks, Richie Cole and Van Morrison.
It's been a long and varied journey for Ben Sidran — from playing boogie woogie piano as a six year old in Racine, Wisconsin, leaning into his jazz records, listening to a Blue Mitchell solo "literally like an Eskimo huddled around a fire", to growing up to play boogie woogie piano around the world and, eventually, recording with Blue Mitchell on his first solo album. Despite the reality that Sidran is better known in Europe and Japan than in America—a fact of life for most jazz musicians—Ben Sidran is an American success story.
Please visit Ben Sidran at bensidran.com
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Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee. He relocated to Chicago to study Art and Design at American Academy of Art and School of the Art Institute. As a graphic designer and illustrator, he has run a successful design studio with a Fortune 500 clientele. As an instructor, he teaches design and illustration and painting at the post-secondary level—most recently—Spelman College. Currently, Palmer devotes his life to his creative goals and has established himself as a fine artist of note.
Over 30 years and counting, Charly Palmer’s art speaks for itself. Literally, Palmer's paintbrush is as a Griot. In every painting, he bears witness of African ancestry and contemporary experiences — rhythmic, visual stories that shifts what each viewer believes to see — should one dare to look deeply.
Palmer has an innate awareness of documenting the intricacies of Blackness with such depth, patterns, symbols, and textures that it is easy to forget that he begins with a blank canvas. The ways in which he applies acrylic is somewhat its own aesthetic that transcends where one’s thought begins and ends.
As a Fine Artist who paints upwards of 50 paintings a year, Palmer’s heart’s desire? To be used as a vessel and expression of something higher than himself.
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Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier is a visual mythologist, a memory keeper. She is guided by the idea of the journey, unmapped spaces and the magic that occurs when one goes looking for history and ancestors. Her visual repertoire mythologizes and re-imagines historical incidences (especially those that are informed by race, gender, and stereotypes) using photography, painting, oral histories and primary source documents, which she uses to tell the stories of the people in communities that she encounters. Her work focuses on “toural” communities (rural agricultural communities that also rely on tourism), urban enclaves, and indigenous communities.
An honors graduate of the Atlanta College of Art, Marshall-Linnemeier received an MA Degree in Southern Studies in 2005 from the University of Mississippi. She has received numerous awards throughout her long career and her work is held in numerous collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta University, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has taught and lectured at many universities including Spelman College, Emory University, the University of Georgia, Brandeis University, and the University of South Australia. She has also served as a consultant to many community arts organizations.
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T.J. Anderson takes pride in collaborations with his distinguished friends Leon Forrest, writer and Richard Hunt, sculptor. A number of his works have been premiered in the artist's studio. As a lecturer, consultant, and visiting composer, he has appeared in institutions in the United States, Brazil, Germany, France, and Switzerland. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Arts, the Djerassi Foundation, the National Humanities Center(their first composer), and a scholar-in- residence at the Rockefeller Center for the Creative Arts, Bellagio, Italy. Anderson was singularly honored when Bruce Alfred Thompson devoted his Ph.D. dissertation at Indiana University to an analysis of his works. Other honors include an honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and a Rockefeller Center Foundation grant, Composer-in- Residence Program (with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Conductor). At his 60th birthday celebration at Harvard University, letters from Robert Shaw and Sir Michael Tippett were read. In March, 1997, he was honored as a founder and first president of the National Black Music Caucus with concert of his music. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, May 18, 2005.
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