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CDs by Ray
Charles
The Genius of Ray Charles
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Genius + Soul = Jazz
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Modern Sounds in Country
and Western Music
Friendship
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Ray
Charles: Ultimate Hits Collection (1999)
The Very Best of Ray Charles (2000)
Ray!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004)
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shades of ray
--- For Ray Charles
By DB Cox dark
shades of ray
swaying
to
fatback
funk
&
blue indigo
incognito,
comping
dirges so slow,
the
drummer’s lost
&
looking for a tempo --
sweet
gospel
heal
your soul
throw
your crutches
away
-– lean on ray
say
amen somebody…
river
of fingers
leafing
through
keys
looking for a lost
note
– the flatted fifth
of
the apocalypse…
i
think
i
heard it today
just
about the time
ray's
unbound soul
quit
this
bone
cold world
on
angel wings
of
thunder
a
world without ray –
who
wants it?
i’m
gonna paint
my
windows black
as
foster-grants
& go to bed forever
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posted 12
November 2005 |
DB Cox is Blues musician/poet, originally
from South Carolina, now resides in Watertown, Massachusetts. He
has had writing published on-line in: Verse Libre Quarterly,
LauraHird.COM, Zygote In My Coffee, Remark, Underground Voices,
Sacramento Poetry Art & Music, and others.
His work has appeared in print in: Aesthetica, Circle
Magazine, Shadow Poetry, My Favorite Bullet, Mystery Island
Magazine and Open Wide Magazine.
He has played guitar since the age of 14.
After graduating from high school in 1966, he did a 4 year stint
with the U.S. Marines. After his discharge, he moved to Boston,
Massachusetts to attend the Berklee School of Music, where he
eventually found the blues circuit. He loves writing for the
same reason he loves playing the guitar -- a way to communicate
how he feels, at a given time, on a given day.
donniebegood@comcast.net
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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