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Craig Harris’ “Brown Butterfly” Liner Notes

Craig Harris, "Brown Butterfly"

Brown Butterfly “Moving clockwise, continuing that famed shuffle of his, Clay–with his hands down…looks like a dancer up there, the way he bobs and weaves, for a man of 212 pounds.” Announcer Les Keiter at the start of the Ali- Cleveland Williams fight. The music in this two-CD collection is a tribute to the genius […]

Tagged With: Africa, African American, Black, Brown Butterfly, Craig Harris, FESTAC, Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali, Nigeria, Sim Ra Arkestra, Sonny Liston

“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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