The blues arenโt pessimistic. Weโre prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
Wealth inequality has increased.
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.