During a month selected to celebrate “history,” we certainly are treated to a lot of the same familiar stories: the battles won for Civil Rights, the glory of Martin Luther King Jr.’s words, the hardships endured by slaves. And as important as those narratives are for us to collectively remember, many others get lost in trumpeting the same heroic tales. In this hour, State of the Re:Union zeroes in some of those alternate narratives, ones edited out of the mainstream imagining of Black History, deconstructing the popular perception of certain celebrated moments.
Links
- Shukree Tilghman’s ”More Than a Month“ Movie
- The Greenwood Chamber of Commerce
- Southern Foodways Alliance
- Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center
- “JRA Moving on Farish, Slowly” Article from the Jackson Free Press
- damali ayo’s Website
Photos/Multimedia
Episode Music
| Artist | Track |
|---|---|
| Aesop Rock | Bring Back Pluto |
| Aesop Rock | Fumes |
| Sending Letters to the Sea | Shifting Structures |
| Oklahoma City Blue Devils | Blue Devil Blues |
| Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey | Last Prayer from the Race Riot Suite |
| Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey | The Burning from the Race Riot Suite |
| Strange Fruit Project | Maintain |
| Blind Boys of Alabama | No More |
| Robert Glasper | Twice |
| Bexar Bexar | Patterned Like Lovers |
| Blockhead | Triptych Pt. 1 |
| Amon Tobin | Chocolate Lovely |
| Mississippi Fred McDowell | Keep Your Lamps |
| Wendel Patrick | Planet Planetarium |
| Tommy Guerrero | The Colour of Life |
| Sonny Boy Williamson | Bye Bye Bird |
| John Lee Hooker | Guitar Blues Instrumental |
| Mavis Staples and Lucky Peterson | I’ll Fly Away |
| Wilson Pickett | Land of a Thousand Dances |
| Jimmy Collier and Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick | Burn, Baby, Burn |
| The Nashville Quartet | You Better Leave Segregation Alone |
| Little Willie John | You’d Better Leave My Kitten Alone |
| Traditional | We Shall Overcome |
| Bonobo | Walk In The Sky |
| Aesop Rock | No City |
| Bonobo | Transmission 94 |
| Bonobo | Ketto |
| Van Morrison (performed by Damali Ayo) | Brand New Day |
| Blockhead | The Strain |
| Air | La Femme D’argent |