Legacy of 1804 radio show with guest Val Jeanty (@val_inc) this Friday at 9pm!

Join guest Val Jeanty and I this Friday at 9PM Eastern as we discuss her music and whatever you want to ask this unique artist!

Haitian electronic music composer/percussionist/turntablist Val Jeanty evokes the musical esoteric realms of the creative subconscious. She incorporates her African Haitian Musical traditions into the present and beyond, combining acoustics with electronics and the archaic with the post-modern. Her "Afro-Electronica" installations have been showcased in New York City at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Village Vanguard and internationally at SaalFelden Music Festival in Austria, Stanser Musiktage in Switzerland, Jazz à la Villette in France, and the Biennale Di Venezia Museum in Italy.'


You can listen to this installment of Legacy of 1804  by clicking "ON AIR" at the link below or via phone at 323-927-2913. (Yes, just dial the number at 9PM on Friday and ... listen ON YOUR PHONE.)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/19/legacy-of-1804

Find out more about Val and her music at http://www.val-inc.com/hear.html.




Please call in Friday at 323-927-2913 and chime in live.


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Kiskeacity mentioned in 9/13 Journal of African American Studies

"The blogosphere offers yet another example of transnational Black Nationalist expression. Usually created by highly educated individuals residing in the USA or Europe, a number of African and Caribbean blogs have surfaced on the Internet. As illustrated by Christophe Celius' Rapadoo Observateur and Alice Backer's kiskeácity, these blogs function as “virtual embassies” of the nation, providing critical information on politics, society, and culture. They also serve as a rallying force for the Diaspora, informing them about local events such as concerts, film festivals, or community functions celebrating an event or holiday from their native land. Last but not least, they promote economic development by informing the Diaspora and any virtual visitors about possibilities in their respective homeland. In many ways, this form of transnational Black Nationalism is a reaction to the social and political forces that led to the uprooting or “diasporization” of Caribbean and African people in the USA. Indeed, if unstable sociopolitical conditions and dire economic circumstances often forced Caribbean and African people to reside in the USA and other Western countries, these very conditions do not preclude them from participating in their homeland's political and socioeconomic affairs. In fact, one may argue that it stim- ulates interaction with the homeland, making the virtual world a much necessary medium to participate in the affairs and development of the sending society. Thus, the virtual world operates as an extension of the nation, offering the Caribbean and continental African Diaspora in the USA the much-desired opportunity to participate in the nation-building process."

A “New” Black Nationalism in the USA and France by Dr. Felix Germain http://ht.ly/pPlhe JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES, Volume 17, Number 3, September 2013


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Legacy of 1804 #2 with guest Dr. Millery Polyné (AUDIO)

Discover Culture Internet Radio with Black Whole Radio on BlogTalkRadio

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/12/legacy-of-1804#

My guest last night on LOF1804 was Dr. Millery Polyné. Topics include the Oct 25th Diaspora in Dialogue conference, the recent ruling stripping Dominicans of Haitian descent of Dominican citizenship and the idea of Haiti.

Millery Polyné is an Associate Professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  A graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in History, Millery's teaching and research interests include the intellectual history of African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans in the 19th and 20th centuries.  He is the author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 (University Press of Florida, 2010) and the editor of The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development.

Here is a link to the video Dear Ayiti which we discussed early in the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnAfIUWKFg

Here is a link to an interview I did of Millery when I first created this blog in 2005 on the topic of growing up Haitian in America. It is one of the most visited links on this site!

http://www.kiskeacity.com/2005/11/second-generation-nation-mill-polyn.html

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LOF 1804 with Dr. Millery Polyne this Friday at 9PM Eastern

Join NYU Professor Millery Polyne and I this Friday at 9PM Eastern as we discuss his upcoming Diaspora in Dialogue conference (Oct 25th), the recent Dominican citizenship ruling as well as his latest book, The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development. 

Millery Polyné is an Associate Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. A graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in History, Millery’s teaching and research interests include the intellectual history of African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti and Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 (University Press of Florida, 2010) and the editor of The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). 

You can listen to this installment of Legacy of 1804  directly on Blog Talk Radio at the link below or via phone at 323-927-2913.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/12/legacy-of-1804


Please call in at 323-927-2913 and ask questions while we have this live ressource on hand!

For more on the Diaspora in Dialogue conference, brought to you by Dr Polyne, Haiti Cultural Exchange and CLACS: http://ht.ly/pEVhG







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LOF 1804 Show #1 with guest Katia Ulysse (AUDIO)

Here is the link to this amazing first Legacy of 1804 where Katia Ulysse talked about her blog Voices from Haiti and her forthcoming collection of short stories Drifting. 
 In  segment 2, I go over highlights in Haitian blogs this week, namely on cholera. I also go over my August blog post about how to deal with requests to donate money "for Haiti". 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/05/legacy-of-1804-with-katia-ulysse-lof1804

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Tune into *Legacy Of 1804* This Friday Oct. 4 at 9PM!

Katia D. Ulysse

Don't forget to join me for ☼Legacy of 1804☼ on Black Whole Radio on Friday, October 4 at 9PM Eastern as I interview Katia D. Ulysse from the blog Voices from Haiti on her new book Drifting and take your calls.  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/05/legacy-of-1804-with-katia-ulysse-lof1804

Nan Vandredi ki 4 Oktòb koute mwen nan Black Whole Radio a nevè nan aswè. Envite mwen se pral Katia Ulysse ki pral pale nou de nouvo liv li Drifting.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/10/05/legacy-of-1804-with-katia-ulysse-lof1804.

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Interviewing Saul Williams on His New Film Tey (Today) Tonight at 7 on Creatively Speaking On the Air

Join me tonight at 7 as I interview SLAM star Saul Williams on his new film Tey (Today). The film's US theatrical run premieres at MIST Harlem on October 6. 

Link to tune in to the show: 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio
(If you get this update too late to catch the show live check my twitter @kiskeacity, or my facebook for the link.)

Check out the website and press release for the film: http://teytoday.tumblr.com/


Get tickets to the premiere screening:
http://www.myimagestudios.com/event/details/877/tey-today--nyc-movie-premier

Tey makes its U.S. premiere following acclaimed screenings at film festivals around the world, premiering in Berlin in 2012. Tey has traveled to over 50 festivals internationally and has won over two dozen prizes including Seattle International’s Emerging Masters Award for best director; Del Primio CittaVenezia Award at the Venice Film Festival; and the Golden Stallion at FESPACO for best film and best actor – a first for Senegal and a first for an American actor. Tey is released by BelleMoon Productions a San Francisco based company. The film will be available in selected theaters around the U.S., October 6th - November 6th, 2013. The U.S. premiere and theatrical run is at MIST Harlem.The film will make its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York’s MIST Harlem Cinema on Sunday, October 6th in partnership with the Creatively Speaking Film Series.


Tey is a powerful fairy tale. In a village outside Dakar, the gods, the stars, or destiny, have spoken — Satché must die by the end of the day. A countdown to his transition, it is a reverse journey to birth – a joyous celebration feted by his community, as if he were a saint. Chosen to disappear, Satché soon finds himself set apart from those closest to him, in beautiful scenes that seek to show those elements of friendship, desire, sadness, affection and anger that are usually left unsaid.


Saul Williams was born in 1972 in Newburgh, New York. He is one of the most well known figures of the hip-hop generation as a poet, actor, rapper, singer and musician. He is recognized for his blend of slam poetry and hip-hop and for his leading role in the film Slam, Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1998.

 


ABOUT CREATIVELY SPEAKING Creatively Speaking is a monthly curated film series offering a diverse forum that highlights independent film by and/or about people of color.
http://www.creativelyspeaking.tv/home/



Post-Show Update:

Here is the show! Enjoy! 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/blackwholeradio/2013/09/25/creatively-speaking-tm-on-the-air-9413

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PHOTOS of Memorial to UN's Victims in Haiti

courtesy Radio Television Caraibes

courtesy Radio Television Caraibes

courtesy Radio Television Caraibes

Translated from Radio Télévision Caraïbes:
"Some pictures of Resistance Square in Port-Salut. A project of the Eric Jean-Baptiste foundation. The statue depicts a Haitian man looking up to the sun while holding a Haitian flag in his right hand and stepping on a UN blue helmet."
Port-Salut is the hometown of Johnny Jean who was raped on video by UN soldiers.
The UN is widely credited for having brought the cholera epidemic to Haiti.

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