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Some Thursday Love on Valentine’s Day: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and Anita Baker

• February 14, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in Anita Baker, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Donny Hathaway, Holidays, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Music, Tammi Terrell, The Heart
Tags: African Americans, Anita Baker, Black Women, Blacks, Donny, Donny Hathaway, Donny Osmond, Eric Mercury, Facebook, Funk Brothers, If This World Were Mine, Love, Marriage, Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, Sex, Stevie Wonder, Tammi Terrell, Valentine's Day

The Queen of Soul Halts Release of “Amazing Grace” Documentary

• September 1, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Aretha Franklin, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Spirituality, Women
Tags: "Shadow and Act", Academy Award, African Americans, Alan Reed, Aretha Franklin, Arts, Black Women, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Compact Disc, Documentary, Dusty Springfield, DVD, Film, Film Documentary, Film Release, Halle Berry, Jeremiah Johnson, Jesus, Legal Maneuver, Movies, Nikki Finke, Oscar Consideration, Roberta Flack, Sydney Pollack, The Oscars, The Seventies, Too Much Diva, Wrong!

The Ancestors Welcome Singer-Songwriter Eugene ‘Gene’ McDaniels, 76, Who Wrote “A 100 Lbs. of Clay,” “Feel Like Making Love” and “Compared to What?”

• August 1, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Eugene McDaniels, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Roberta Flack, Sexuality, Stroke, The Heart, Women
Tags: "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Feel Like Making Love", "Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse", A Tribe Called Quest, Actor, Atlantic Records, Billboard Hot 100, Black Rock Coalition, Eddie Harris, Eugene McDaniels, Films, Four Octave Range, Frankie Vaughan, Gene McDaniels, Jackie Wilson, Les McCann, Maine, Roberta Flack, Ron Carter, Singer, Singer Songwriter, Songwriter, Spiro Agnew, Swiss Movement, The Left Rev. McD, The Seventies, The Sixties, UK Singles Chart

“The Legendary: A Film About The Roots” is Nine Minutes of Illumination

• March 6, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Music, The Roots
Tags: "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear", "Things Fall Apart", "Wake Up, African Americans, Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, Alternative Rock, Black Thought, Blacks, Fans, Funk, Hip Hop, Isaac Hayes, Jazz, Jimmy Fallon, John Legend, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Neo-Soul, Philadelphia High School for Creative Performing Arts, Roberta Flack, Roots, Sam Cooke, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, The Roots

“Somewhere” is Here and Now

• February 13, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Africans, Algeria, American Foreign Policy, American History, Arabs, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Egypt, Film, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Revolutions, Spirituality, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tunisia, World History
Tags: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", "Somewhere", "The White Queen of Soul", "West Side Story", African Americans, Algeria, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Birmingham AL, Blacks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dusty Springfield, Egypt, Freedom, Governor Walker, Kennedy Center Honors, Love, Martin Luther King, Miss Re, Miss Re Re, Pell Grant, Quincy Jones, Right-to-Work, Roberta Flack, Scott Walker, Self-Worth, The Nineties, The Seventies, Tunisia, Wisconsin

Aretha’s “Amazing Grace” Gospel Documentary From 1972 May Finally See General Release

• March 7, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Aretha Franklin, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentary, Film, Music, Race, Religion, Spirituality
Tags: "Amazing Grace", Academy Award, African Americans, Alan Elliott, Albertina Walker, Aretha Franklin, Atlantic Records, BBC, Blacks, Carolyn Franklin, Church, Clara Ward, Columbia Records, Direct-to-DVD, Erma Franklin, Genius, Gospel, Los Angeles California, Mahalia Jackson, Mavis Staples, Muscle Shoals, New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, One Lord One Faith One Baptism, PBS, Queen of Soul, Quincy Jones, Roberta Flack, Soul Sister No. 1, Sydney Pollack, The Seventies, Theatrical Release, Warner Bros., Young Gifted and Black

Friday Night Music, October 23: Donny Hathaway, “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” 1973

• October 23, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Class, Donny Hathaway, Health, History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music
Tags: "Extension of a Man", "Someday We'll All Be Free", "Valdez in the Country", 1979, Al Kooper, Alcoholism, Bipolar Disorder, Central Park, Danny O'Keefe, Depression, Donny Edward Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Edward Howard, Kenya Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway, Melancholia, New York City, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Phyllis Hyman, R & B, Roberta Flack, Soul, Suicide, The Essex House, The Seventies

Friday Night Music, August 7: Roberta Flack, “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” 1974

• August 7, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Music, Roberta Flack
Tags: "Killing Me Softly", Atlantic Records, Charles Fox, Clint Eastwood, Donny Hathaway, Grammy, Grammy Award, Grammy R & B, Howard University, Les McCann, Maxi Priest, New York, Norman Gimbel, Peabo Bryson, Roberta Flack, The Seventies, Washington D.C.

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Some Thursday Love on Valentine’s Day: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and Anita Baker

The Queen of Soul Halts Release of “Amazing Grace” Documentary

The Ancestors Welcome Singer-Songwriter Eugene ‘Gene’ McDaniels, 76, Who Wrote “A 100 Lbs. of Clay,” “Feel Like Making Love” and “Compared to What?”

“The Legendary: A Film About The Roots” is Nine Minutes of Illumination

“Somewhere” is Here and Now

Aretha’s “Amazing Grace” Gospel Documentary From 1972 May Finally See General Release

Friday Night Music, October 23: Donny Hathaway, “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” 1973

Friday Night Music, August 7: Roberta Flack, “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” 1974

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