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Camille Gainer Jones Celebrates Miriam Makeba

Camille Gainer Jones

Sat., March 16, 2019, Two sets 9 & 10:30 pm, $20 with advance reservation – call (718) 398-1766 or $25 at door. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, continues its 23rd season with the music of Resistance, Resilience […]

Tagged With: Ahmed Abdullah, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Camille Gainer Jones, jazz, Miriam Makeba, New York, NYC, Sistas' Place, Viola Plummer

Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin honors Ella Baker

Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin

Sat., March 2, 2019, Two sets 9 & 10:30 pm, $20 with advance reservation – call (718) 398-1766 or $25 at door. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, continues its 23rd season with the music of Resistance, Resilience, […]

Tagged With: Ahmed Abdullah, Binky Brice, Brooklyn, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gha’il Rhodes Benjamin, Ida B. Wells, jazz, Miriam Makeba, New Year, New York, Poetry, Sistas' Place, Viola Plummer, Winnie Mandela

“Last Day in Lagos” Book Signing with Marilyn Nance

FESTEC'77

Sunday, March 26, 2023, 3 – 5 p.m., 456 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY (see map) A focused study on a singular African American photographer, through an archival encounter with her documentation of the landmark FESTAC’77 festival. From January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15,000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered […]

Tagged With: Fela Kuti, FESTAC'77, Last Day in Lagos, Marilyn Nance, Miriam Makeba, Nigeria, Pan African, Photographer, Photos, Queen Mother Moore, Sun Ra

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