Ernest Gregory

08/02/2023

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-JAMES BALDWIN,

Today is the Birthday of
JAMES BALDWIN August 2nd 1924 – December 1st 1987
Harlem, New York City, NY.

08/02/2023

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

-JAMES BALDWIN,

Today is the Birthday of
JAMES BALDWIN August 2nd 1924 – December 1st 1987
Harlem, New York City, NY.

06/27/2023

06/23/2023

Happy birthday to my man Donald Harrison 👊🏾

06/15/2023

Born: 1971 (age 52 years), New York.
❤️ you my brother and HBD Nasheet Waits , 👊🏾
A drummer and music educator, is a New York native. His interest in playing the drums was encouraged by his father, legendary percussionist, Frederick Waits. Over the course of his career, Freddie Waits played with such legendary artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Max Roach, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and countless others.

06/14/2023

#64. Marcus Miller

06/08/2023

In NYC very little has changed, however if you do go out and about wear a N95 mask

05/25/2023

Wallace Roney on what would have been his 63rd B’Day. R I P.

05/19/2023

05/19/2023

Bassist Extrodinare

05/19/2023

05/19/2023

✊🏾Malcolm,

05/18/2023

Born: May 19, 1925, Omaha, NE
Assassinated:@39 on February 21, 1965, Audubon Ballroom, Harlem

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”
✊🏾— Malcolm X el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz.

05/13/2023

in memory of
Mr. Albert Murray (HBD May 12, 1916)

The writer Albert Murray, a maverick intellectual who challenged widespread assumptions about U.S. and African American culture,
Murray, a novelist as well as essayist and literary and music critic, wrote more than a dozen books, beginning in 1970s with the seminal “The Omni-Americans: Black Experience and American Culture,” which posed a searing critique of both black separatism and white establishment ideas of the “dysfunction” of the black community.
- August 18 2013
died in New York City at age 97.

04/29/2023

Happy Birthday Giancarlo Esposito!

04/25/2023

At 96 Harry Belafonte transitioned from congestive heart failure at his UWS New York home

04/25/2023

-dies @96 in NYC cause of death congestive heart failure

04/25/2023

Harry Belafonte, Calypso King Who Worked for African-American Rights, Dies at 96

04/21/2023

On April 21, 2003, the legendary singer and pianist Nina Simone died in Carry-le-Rouet, France 🇫🇷

https://youtu.be/jzOk1tQnV94

04/21/2023

Also , on this day, ‘PRINCE’ @ 57 was found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park studio compound on April 21, 2016. His legacy will forever live among us

08/09/2022

"I have never liked the word retirement. ... I'm here to tell you that I'm evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me."

08/06/2022

Abby Lincoln🎂

08/02/2022

07/31/2022

The one and only…
# nichellenichols #

07/02/2022

HBD #92

06/15/2022

💔

06/09/2022

HBD Kenny Baron.

06/04/2022

When this type of B S**t is posted on your I G page and you can’t move on with out going through more forms of duress , why do I have to deal with this ,Plz stop I G, dammit

06/03/2022