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Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali)

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Diasporic Music

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - June 26, 2013

Music and talents of Colina Phillips, Eric Mercury and K'naan. Plus the passing of Marvin Junior, Clarence Burke and Mulgrew Miller.

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Malcolm X and The Music

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - May 18, 2011

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was assassinated 46 years ago on February 21, 1965, because of his attempt to internationalize the struggle of African people inside the United States.

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Aminata Moseka (Abbey Lincoln): “The Girl Can’t Help It”: She was a freedom fighter

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - August 26, 2010

"We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It’s our memory banks.” - Abbey Lincoln.

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Dramatics founder Ron Banks dead at 58

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - March 21, 2010

Ron Banks, whose silky falsetto helped give the Dramatics one of the most enduring careers in R&B, has joined the ancestors. Banks passed at...

Haiti and Canada

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - February 28, 2010

The Big Three (The United States, France and their baby brother Canada) are using the Jan 12th earthquake to enforce the domination of the...

February is African Liberation Month

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - February 4, 2010

Black History Month must be updated for the 21st century. February should be the month that we re-double our struggle against imperialism and white supremacy, and for reparations for slavery, the slave trade and colonialism.

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Jesse Belvin: The most gifted of all

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - February 4, 2010

The legendary Etta James was high on Belvin. She bluntly called Belvin, "The most gifted of all...even now I consider him the greatest singer of my generation. Rhythm and blues, rock and roll, crooner, you name it. He was going to be bigger than Sam Cooke, bigger than Nat Cole."

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Michael Jackson will be welcomed by the ancestors

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - July 3, 2009

The year is 1983. My friends and I are in Buffalo, New York. We are there to see the poets Amiri Baraka and Jayne...

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