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The Middle
Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey
Psycho
Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign
Nice For What
Drake
Never Be The Same
Camila Cabello
Delicate
Taylor Swift
No Tears Left To Cry
Ariana Grande
In My Blood
Shawn Mendes
Meant To Be
Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
God’s Plan
Drake
Mine
Bazzi
EVERYTHING IS LOVE
The Carters
Nasir
Nas
Youngblood
5 Seconds Of Summer
Liberation
Christina Aguilera
Post Traumatic
Mike Shinoda
The Greatest Showman
Soundtrack
SQUARE UP (EP)
BLACKPINK
Redemption
Jay Rock
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KIDS SEE GHOSTS
KIDS SEE GHOSTS
Presented by
wireless
Caribbean L 48 ife, March 22–28, 2019 BQ
Series — A 5th Anniversary
Festival at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music (BAM), on Thursday,
March 14.
“I hope it goes well. I am
sure it will,” assured Morton,
who opined during a conversation
at the opening night reception
at MOCADA Museum on
Hanson Place, that the festival
is obviously a manifestation of
years of work and art.
“I think that anytime, any
part of the arts finally find its
support and begins to grow,
it’s a good thing, so I think this
is obviously a manifestation of
years of work and many years
of art, and it’s growing, that’s a
good thing.”
Daughter, Hopi Noël Morton,
a film consultant, brought
along the Harlem-born stage,
television, and film thespian,
who is heating up CBS Network,
in the series “God Friended
Me.”
The “Terminator 2,” and
“American Gangster” actor,
expressed pleasure in working
with producer, Shonda Rhimes,
and the cast and crew of “Scandal”
for five and a half years,
and described his run as one of
the highlights of his career.
He directed the 16th episode
in the last season of “Scandal,”
and two episodes of “God
Friended Me,” that was picked
up for two more seasons.
He praised his daughter,
Hopi, saying she has always
consulted and helped people
grow. “She is doing exactly what
she wants to do,” he said.” “The
arts, has been a part of our family
since my kids were born, so
I am not surprised that she has
done so well. This is terrific,”
he said of Hopi, incoming CEO
of the Alacran Group, an outfit
that empowers young women
in Jamaica through sustained
programs.
Hopi Morton worked with
Jason Jeffers and Romola Lucas
(Third Horizon, a Miami-based
collective of Caribbean creatives),
through their process of
coming together to launch a
new enterprise to present films
from the Caribbean and the
diaspora.
She asserted that it was
important to have her dad at
the event, because he is a pioneer
in the industry, as a person
of color, and a black man,
and “I think that’s what the
important connection is.”
“They are pioneering a new
generation of Caribbean filmmakers
and arts in the larger
picture, not just within our
subcultures, but taking maybe,
what some of us, do, see, feel,
and hear, and brining that to a
larger viewership, and I think
that is what my father has done
as a pioneer, in the larger spectrum
of television and film. I
think that is an important connection
to make.”
City during the golden era of
hip-hop.
The Curtis Brothers, African
American and Puerto Rican,
explore West Africa’s influence
on American music from Latin
America by mapping rhythms
that evolved from the African
slave trade: from samba, hiphop,
R&B, gospel, to blues, jazz
and rock music.
In March (date and time
TBD) CCCADI will present
a panel discussion on race,
myth, art and justice. Learn
more at www.cccadi.org
UPTOWN NIGHTS: The
Curtis Brothers and Circa ‘95--
Wepa! Movement, Culture and
Music
This event forms part of
Carnegie Hall’s Migrations:
The Making of America festival
and is presented in partnership
with the Caribbean Cultural
Center African Diaspora Institute
(CCCADI).
Saturday, March 23, 7:30
pm, Price: $25. Harlem Stage
Gatehouse,150 Convent Ave.
(at West 135th Street)
https://www.harlemstage.
org/events-list/uptown-wepamovement
culture-music
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know: You’re a fireball from
the skies.
No, really. If you could look
inside your body, you’d find
the same ingredients that
make stars. And get this: if
you could harness it properly,
your littlest finger on your
right hand has energy enough
to run millions of refrigerators
and TVs, light up hundreds
of schools, and run an entire
city’s worth of stoplights. All
on the same day!
It takes energy to do everything;
even just sitting and
listening to music or reading
a piece of paper takes energy.
The bones and muscles inside
you take energy to keep you
singing and jumping and smiling,
from the smallest bone
inside your head to the largest
bone in your thigh, from the
smallest muscle in your ear to
your largest muscle, the one
you’re sitting on!
Human beings have energy
to run longer than the fastest
animal on earth. They can create
musical instruments and
make songs. Humans learned
to cook food, to invent cars
and trains, to build cities and
sidewalks, and to look for stars
in the skies. Maybe we’re even
looking for another fireball…
The thing to remember
about the energy inside your
body is that sometimes, it needs
to replenish. That can be done
by eating food that’s good for
you, getting a full nights’ sleep,
and being active every day. If
you get all these things and you
take care of the energy machine
that is your body, then your
brain is cared-for, too.
And that brain? It lets you
imagine and invent, do math,
work on a computer and
understand science, remember
important things and unimportant
things. It keeps you
interesting, funny, and smart.
It makes you powered up.
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Circa ‘95.
Power
up and
explore
Joe Morton
ARTISTS
OF
COLOR
Cover of “Power Up.”
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