Burning Spear News

U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama, the first African president of the United States, has not recognized Black Music Month and changed the name to African American Music Month in 2009.

Mama Africa Miriam Makeba is best known for her song "Pata Pata." She was born in Johannesburg on March 4, 1932. She joined the ancestors on November 9, 2008. Makeba was pro-Africa and had a profound impact on artists such as Aretha Franklin.

The 2015 documentary on Nina Simone, “What Happened, Miss Simone” was an instant classic. The Toronto bookstore, A Different Booklist, organized a group of people to screen the film together when it was first shown here.

George Jackson, his younger brother, Jonathan Jackson and Khatari Gaulden are central to understanding Black August, the commemoration of the martyred freedom fighters that began in the California prison system in the 1970s. Jackson was an African born in America who became a Field Marshal of the Black Pan­ther Party while in prison, where he spent the last 12 years of his life. His book of published letters, “Soledad Brother,” became an in­stant classic.