Long before I embarked on a long and often frustrating part-time career as a mobile and club DJ, the music of Quincy Jones was a large part of my life, even if I didn’t realize it at first. Many of … Continue reading The Ancestors’ Call: Musician, Producer, Composer and Cultural Impresario Quincy Jones
This week’s edition of “The REvolution Is Black Love” comes from the Black Men Unifying Black Men 4th Annual Black Men’s Honors Breakfast Event, held on Saturday, November 2 at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge on Eutaw Place in Baltimore … Continue reading “The REvolution Is Black Love” at the Black Men Unifying Black Men Honors Breakfast, Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The Wednesday, October 30 edition of “The R-Evolution Is Black Love” features the proprietors of the Blue Nile, a longtime staple of the Georgia Avenue corridor of Washington, DC, located near Howard University in Northwest Washington, DC. Show host Sis. … Continue reading “The R-Evolution Is Black Love” Features the Blue Nile of Washington, DC, Wednesday, October 30
Coming up on Saturday, October 12, 2024 at the Temple of New African Thought (TNAT), the Maryland Pan Afrikan Cooperative Coalition (MPACC) will hold our third Pan Afrikan Community Town Hall Meeting of the year. Our theme will be a … Continue reading “Electoral Poly-Tricks” Pan Afrikan Community Town Hall Meeting, Saturday, October 12, 2024 in East Baltimore
“The Revolution Is Black Love” (Wednesday afternoons at 3:00 PM ET) features frequent guest, Choctaw Elder Grandmother Walks On Water on Wednesday, October 9 on HANDRadio (https://handradio.org). She discusses the topic “Healing the Heart Chakra” with host Sis. Tomiko. “The … Continue reading “The Revolution Is Black Love” features Grandmother Walks On Water, October 9, 2024
The anticipated day has finally arrived. Sis. Tomiko, host of “The R-evolution Is Black Love”, heard every Wednesday at 3:00 PM ET on Hand Radio (https://handradio.org), traveled to West Baltimore’s Penn-North neighborhood, site of the 2015 Freddie Gray Uprising, to … Continue reading “The R-evolution Is Black Love” Interviews Baba Nati of Baltimore Bookstore and Institution Everyone’s Place, September 26, 2024
“We broke into our regular programming” for a special tribute to Maze founder and leader Frankie Beverly, said Sis. Tomiko (Baltimore, Maryland), host of The R-evolution Is Black Love (Wednesdays at 3:00 PM Eastern Time, HandRadio, https://handradio.org). New Ancestor Frankie … Continue reading “The Revolution Is Black Love” Pays Tribute to Frankie Beverly
It is not often that the Cultural Community must endure the loss of three icons in the span of six days. That happened this week, when first Brazilian bossa nova and jazz-funk legend Sergio Mendes passed on to the Ancestors … Continue reading The Ancestors’ Call: Three Mighty Cultural Icons, James Earl Jones, Frankie Beverly, Sergio Mendes
The Wednesday, September 11 edition of “The R-evolution Is Black Love” features an interview with Baba Nati, proprietor of Everyone’s Place, located on North Avenue in the Penn-North neighborhood of West Baltimore. Everyone’s Place has been a staple of the … Continue reading “The R-evolution Is Black Love” Interviews Baba Nati of Everyone’s Place, Wednesday, September 11, 2024 on Hand Radio
The Wednesday, August 28 edition of “The R-Evolution Is Black Love” features Baba Coy Dunston, proprietor of Secrets of Nature in Washington, DC. Sis. Tomiko, host of “The R-Evolution Is Black Love”, interviewed him at his location about his introduction … Continue reading “The R-Evolution Is Black Love” features Health Food Proprietor Coy Dunston of Secrets of Nature (Washington, DC)