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It's time for us to show up for Baba Kamau. For those who don't know, Kamau Sadiki and Assata Shakur have a daughter together. He has been in prison for 16 years because he refused to cooperate with the State to help lure Assata into being re-captured. He needs the support of his community on this issue. He needs to be under the medical care of someone who cares about his well-being. The prison assessment cannot be trusted. #KamauSadiki #AssataShakur #FreeEmAll https://www.instagram.com/p/BqDHxsAB8yi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12c1lfljg4u6v

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This is one of a series of discussions we're hosting to talk about truly empowering Black people in ATL, with this special project focused in Decatur. Last month we focused on education. This month we're talking about the lessons we've learned from our work in Mississippi and how they can be applied in ATL. Anybody who cares about freedom is welcome to join us. (at DeKalb County, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqDGjgwBXfh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fqwbto1nherp

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Why don't we talk about Portugal more?

They decriminalized ALL drugs. Every single one. Yes, even that one. If you get caught w. more than a 10 days supply (what ever that means) of any drug you meet in front of a Doctor, Lawyer and Social worker about drug addiction. They may or may not give you a fine but essentially there’s no penalty.

AND IT WORKED! ADDICTION RATES DROPPED. HIV RATES IN INJECTION USERS DROPPED. DEATH BY DRUG OD PLUMMETED.

Potugal has shown us that when we treat drug addiction as a medical/health issue, instead of a moral one, it is more efficient.

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Today is weird for me. The world is celebrating Pac, and rightfully so. A few years ago, I got to the point where I started generally keeping my thoughts about Pac to myself...I literally pray to these two #Holy #Saints #Angels #Egungun some people have the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit or Orisha or whatever they're into. I got Khallid and Tupac.

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👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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This morning is dedicated to relieving my muscle soreness

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#Ludacris at the Georgia Swarm lacrosse game

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TRUTH dot com

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(via John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music | Open Culture)

Neither description seems out of place. Musician and blogger Roel Hollander notes, “Thelonious Monk once said ‘All musicans are subconsciously mathematicians.’ Musicians like John Coltrane though have been very much aware of the mathematics of music and consciously applied it to his works.”

Coltrane was also very much aware of Einstein’s work and liked to talk about it frequently. Musican David Amram remembers the Giant Steps genius telling him he “was trying to do something like that in music.”

Hollander carefully dissects Coltrane’s mathematics in two theory-heavy essays, one generally on Coltrane’s “Music & Geometry” and one specifically on his “Tone Circle.” Coltrane himself had little to say publically about the intensive theoretical work behind his most famous compositions, probably because he’d rather they speak for themselves. He preferred to express himself philosophically and mystically, drawing equally on his fascination with science and with spiritual traditions of all kinds. Coltrane’s poetic way of speaking has left his musical interpreters with a wide variety of ways to look at his Circle, as jazz musician Corey Mwamba discovered when he informally polled several other players on Facebook. Clarinetist Arun Ghosh, for example, saw in Coltrane’s “mathematical principles” a “musical system that connected with The Divine.” It’s a system, he opined, that “feels quite Islamic to me.”

Lateef agreed, and there may be few who understood Coltrane’s method better than he did. He studied closely with Coltrane for years, and has been remembered since his death in 2013 as a peer and even a mentor, especially in his ecumenical embrace of theory and music from around the world. Lateef even argued that Coltrane’s late-in-life masterpiece A Love Supreme might have been titled “Allah Supreme” were it not for fear of “political backlash.” Some may find the claim tendentious, but what we see in the wide range of responses to Coltrane’s musical theory, so well encapsulated in the drawing above, is that his recognition, as Lateef writes, of the “structures of music” was as much for him about scientific discovery as it was religious experience. Both for him were intuitive processes that “came into existence,” writes Lateef, “in the mind of the musican through abstraction from experience.”

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Dance to the beat of the Afrikan drum (at Malcolm X Festival West End Park)

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Dance to the beat of the Afrikan drum (at Malcolm X Festival West End Park)

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We are back at it today! Come get some of this goodness! (at Malcolm X Festival West End Park)

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The school district I attended. SMH

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Red, Black, and Green before I knew what it means #3rdGrade #WickerChair

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Senior pics. Hood colors. Hood sign. Flag of Islam ring. #DimeHood #HathawaySouth

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Two days away from the turn up (at Artisans Bar and Gallery)