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Ishmael Reed’s Canada: black, Jewish, indigenous
February 20, 2013 Ishmael Reed isn’t into tragedy, so Flight to Canada is funny about the African-American presence up North. Raven Quickskill is there of course, having flown in “non-stop/ Jumbo jet this A.M. Had Champagne/ Compliments of the Cap’n/ … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, Black-Jewish alliances, Canada, Climate change, Environmentalism, Ethnicity, indigenous communities, planet, slavery, Twentieth century literature, Uncategorized
Tagged Al Gore., Czar Nicholas, Flight to Canada, Inuit Circumpolar Council, ishmael Reed, Keystone Pipeline, Mexico, Nobel Peace Prize, Rachel Adams, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, underground railroad, Washington D.C.
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Ishmael Reed, Grateful Dead: Egypt
November 28, 2012 Ishmael Reed gets away with it. He is “a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra,” he says in the poem of that title. And he gets to do thisbecause Sonny Rollins has already set an example: Sonny … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arts communities, collaboration, contemporary poetry, Egypt, Global South, jazz, Middle East, Music, peripheral networks, Rock music, Twentieth century literature, Vernacular dialects, World religions
Tagged "Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978", Bill Kreutzmann, Cowboy in the Boat of Ra, Egypt, Gizab Sound & Light Theater, Grateful Dead, Hamza El Din, ishmael Reed, Israel, Jerry Garcia, Madame Anwar Sadat, Moses, Nile, Nubian Youth Choir, Ollin Arageed, Peace Accord, Ra, Sonny Rollins
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