1943 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra charted with “Don’t Get Aound Much Anymore,” reaching #1 R&B and #8 pop. The often-recorded hit was originally titled “Never No Lament,” and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental, with song lyricist Bob Russell’s lyrics and the new title added in 1942. Two different recordings of “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”, one by The Ink Spots and the other by Ellington’s own band, reached #1 on the R&B charts in 1943.
1961 Darlene Love & the Blossoms—who were the premier vocal back-up singers for everyone from Elvis to Dionne Warwick—finally earned some attention with a single of their own when “Son-n-Law” charted, reaching #79 pop. It was their only Top 100 single and the answer record to Ernie K. Doe’s “Mother-n-Law.”
1963 Darlene Love made a rare TV appearance when she preformed on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand singing her current hit, “(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry.”
1964 Little Richard performed on the British TV show, Ready, Steady, Go! along with Carl Perkins and the Swinging Blue Jeans.
1968 James Brown attended a dinner at the White House, at the invitation of President & Mrs. Johnson.
1992 A monument was dedicated to “Muddy Waters, master of the blues,” in Rolling Fork, MS, by local officials.
1992 The Dixie Cups of “Chapel of Love” fame reunited and performed at Radio City Music Hall in New York for WCBS-FM’s twentieth anniversary concert.
1996 The eighth annual World Music Awards in Monte Carlo, Monaco, bestowed honors upon Michael Jackson, including awards for World’s Best-Selling Album of All-Time (for Thriller), World’s Best-Selling Male Pop Artist, American Male Recording Artist, and World’s Best-Selling R&B Artist. Also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award was Diana Ross. Best Pop Group and Best R&B group kudos went to TLC.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 21-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after police said he snatched up his ex-girlfriend’s 3-month-old son during a fight and then threw the baby from his car on an interstate highway.
The child’s lifeless body was found near Interstate 275 north of downtown Tampa early Tuesday. The man, Richard A. McTear Jr., was captured several hours later. Deputies said he is not the child’s father.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said McTear was arguing with his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, Jasmine Bedwell, at her apartment when he began beating her and the child.
She reported that McTear threw her son, Emanuel Wesley Murray, down on the concrete, then picked him up and fled in his Chevrolet Impala.
Jason Bird, a news photographer for WTVT-TV in Tampa, spotted the baby’s body on his way to work at about 4:30 a.m.
“On the side of the road, I saw something out of the corner of my eye and at first I thought it was a baby doll, and then as I was thinking about it more I thought that was awfully big for a doll,” Bird said in an interview on the station.
He turned around and went back to take another look.
“It was laying there with its eyes open,” he said. “I couldn’t look at it. It freaked me out, but fortunately law enforcement came right away.”
“It’s hard to find words to describe why someone would do this to a poor, defenseless child,” sheriff’s Maj. Harold Winsett told reporters at the scene.
Deputies located McTear’s car at his home. Witnesses told deputies where he could be found, and he was arrested about four hours later after a foot chase.
McTear also was charged with burglary with a battery, felony battery, aggravated child abuse and kidnapping, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter.
McTear had previously been arrested on charges including felony battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and domestic battery by strangulation. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, McTear was sentenced to two years probation in June 2008 on a felony battery conviction. An arrest warrant was issued when he failed to report.
Last month, Bedwell sought an injunction against McTear for domestic violence, but the case was dropped because she didn’t appear in court.
In court papers, Bedwell said McTear was violent, often armed and had a drug problem.
She said he had forced his way into her apartment and beat her.
McTear had not yet appeared in court and did not yet have an attorney.
There is a special place in hell for monsters such as McTeer.
But, before he makes the aquaintance of God who will pass judgement on him, Richard McTear will have to pass through the prison system and answer to those who have very little compassion for child murderers.
1953 Clyde McPhatter signed with Atlantic Records as lead singer of the Drifters.
1954 Clyde McPhatter of the Drifters was drafted into the Army, but was lucky to be stationed in Buffalo, NY. On weekends he would bus in for gigs with the group.
1955 Bo Diddley charted with his homage to himself , “Bo Diddley,” reaching #1 R&B and beginning a legendary career that pushed him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1966 After going without a Top 10 hit for almost three years, the Chiffons came back strong when “Sweet Talking Guy” charted on its way to #10 pop. The song was co-written by Doug Morris, who went on to become president of Universal Music Group, parent of UNI and MCA Records.
1968 Aretha Franklin made her first tour of Europe. While at the Olympia Theatre in Paris, her performance was recorded for a future album.
1988 Terence Trent D’Arby reached #1 pop and R&B with “Wishing Well.” The malcontent who often denounced his home country of America apparantly wised up in a later interview when he refused to comment, saying: “Every time I open my mouth, I ruin my career.”
The Congressional Black Caucus is launching a campaign to persuade President Obama to appoint one of their members to the Supreme Court seat that will be vacated by Justice David Souter.
They are pressing the merits of Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), who would increase the number of African- Americans on the court to two. At present, Justice Clarence Thomas is the only African-American on the court.
Members of the black caucus say Scott, who is also a member of the House Judiciary Committee, was discussed as being a well-qualified possibility during their caucus’s Wednesday afternoon meeting.
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said he would recommend Scott to Obama, and expects to do so. Obama consulted with Conyers before he launched his presidential bid, and Conyers was one of the first lawmakers to endorse him.
Though Scott, 62, is not a judge, he is widely respected in the field of constitutional law, Conyers said.
“He does a brilliant job on the committee separating out constitutional questions,” Conyers added.
Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said that CBC members Wednesday discussed that “we need to be actively involved” in the process of selecting a new justice in the wake of Souter’s retirement, and also discussed that Scott “is someone everyone believes in.”
“He has that much-talked-about judicial temperament and he would be able to serve with distinction for a long time,” Cleaver said. “I hope it is something that advisers to the president would take seriously.”
Scott got his undergraduate degree at Harvard and his law degree from Boston College in 1973 and returned to his home of Newport News to practice law. He practiced until he ran for Congress and won in 1992.
He is known as an ardent civil libertarian, having opposed the Patriot Act and efforts to allow states to display the Ten Commandments in schools or government buildings. He was one of three members to oppose condemnation of a federal court decision declaring unconstitutional the words “One Nation Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
A call to Scott’s office for comment was not returned.
Okay. . . .so, you get this Black justice on the Supreme Court. Then what? What are the chances that he (or she) will not be a turn coat against the United States Constitution? What are the chances that this justice will not rip apart and gut the rights that citizens have, rights which have been chipped away at by the savagery of the SCOTUS? (And I do not count Clarence Thomas as a Black Supreme Court Justice. As far as I am concerned, he is a Justice Taney in blackface.)
Too many so-called justices on the SCOTUS have trampled on the law. To the CBC, be careful in whom you consider and advocate to President Obama. This country does not need anymore justices who pervert and subvert the laws that were enacted to protect citizens against subjugation, no matter how liberal or conservative the prospective justice may be.
And what if Obama chickens out and selects a non-Black candidate, even when there are well qualified Blacks (especally Black women) who are capable and prepared to head a position of the highest court in the land?
Don’t be surprised if Obama follows the status quo and does not put forward the names of any qualified Black candidates.
If he does it will shock the hell out of me.
He hasn’t stood strong against the continued racism in America, so pray tell, why should he be any different on the nomination process for a Supreme Court Justice?
Why should he give a damn about the many qualified Blacks who can (and will be) overlooked by him and the U.S. Senate on the selection of a new justice?
In the end, Obama will be no different from all of his predecessors———a groveling, cowering lackey of all that is wrong with this country.
WILKES-BARRE — The swastika tattooed to Alan Leitzel Jr.’s chest remained hidden Tuesday, beneath the gray jacket and white button-down shirt he wore during the second day of his “degree of guilt” trial for the killing of his girlfriend’s biracial son.
Later, near the Route 93 interchange with Interstate 81, Wetzel said Leitzel saw a collection of roadside signs for the presidential candidatesHillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and said he was glad Clinton won the state’s recent Democratic primary.
“Anything to keep power away from the (blacks),” Leitzel said, again using the derogatory term, according to Wetzel.
Leitzel, 26, of West Hazleton, pleaded guilty last week to an open count of homicide, but denied any premeditation or intent to end the boy’s life.
Prosecutors claimed Leitzel’s racism and bigotry manifested in his treatment of Xavier and the shaking and strike to the head that led to the boy’s death.
“He had a general hatred for African-Americans,” Assistant District Attorney Jarrett Ferentino told Luzerne County Judge David W. Lupas.
Leitzel’s attorneys, William Ruzzo and Jonathan Blum, asked Lupas to dismiss the most serious potential charge — first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
Lupas, who is sitting in the place of a jury and will decide whether Leitzel intended to murder Xavier, or if the boy’s death was the result of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, denied the motion.
Ruzzo and Blum are scheduled to start presenting their case today, beginning with testimony from Dr. Richard Fischbein, a psychiatrist who examined Leitzel. Ruzzo and Blum and prosecutors agreed to allow another expert, emergency physician Dr. Robert Belfer, submit a report rather than testify.
Earlier Tuesday, prosecutors displayed vivid photographs from the Xavier’s autopsy, his skull fractured, face bruised and spine bloodied, as forensic pathologistDr. Samuel Lamb testified. Lamb, who performed the autopsy, said Xavier’s injuries were indicative of “abusive head trauma.”
“There has to be an impact to cause (a skull fracture),” Lamb said. “The head struck something or something struck the head.”
Leitzel shook Xavier several times and slammed his head, possibly against a wall or stereo speaker, prosecutors said. The impact caused the boy to fall silent and limp, prosecutors said.
“This is anything but a shaken baby case,” Ferentino said. “Slamming a 3-month-old baby’s head on a hard surface or soft, that’s intent to commit murder.”
Such a big, bad man. Murdering an innocent 3-month-old baby.
Let’s see how he does in prison against full-grown adults, people who can and will fight back against the ilk of Leitzel’s type.
Leitzel boasted about the tattoo as two state police officers drove him to a preliminary hearing last April in Hazle Township, four months after the boy, 3-month-old Xavier Simmons, died from blunt force trauma to the head, state police Corporal Corey Wetzel said.
Leitzel told Wetzel he had the swastika — a symbol of hate propagated by Nazis and white supremacists — branded to his body while incarcerated at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, using a sharpened staple as a needle and hair-care products heated to produce a dark dye.
Earlier in the ride, Leitzel noticed a black motorist driving near the intersection of Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and Coal Street, Wetzel said. He scowled at the driver, cursed and invoked a historically pejorative term for blacks.
Manong Al Has Left the Building… Manong Al Robles passed away this past week. Gina Acebo reminds us that his work around the I-Hotel struggle should be considered essential “people’s history.”
Labor Behind Closed Doors The coalescence of May Day and Equal Pay Day this week was an apt moment to demand justice for some of the country’s most vulnerable and least visible workers.
May Day 2009 Series with Shannah Kurland and Kevin Johnson. On May Day we asked people around the country one question: How do we talk about immigration reform in a time of economic recession?
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Ingmar Bergman’s most beautiful film. Released in 1960, and winner of the Best Foreign Film, The Virgin Spring is Bergman at his best.
The film is based upon a 14TH Century Swedish ballad:
TORE’S DAUGHTER AT VANGE
Tore’s daughter in Vange deep
Did one morning too long sleep;
Mass she missed, she slept it thro’.
But God will surely bless her too.
To the loft Mistress Martha goes
– cold is the forest air –
Karin, her daughter, she arose,
– When green the trees are there.
Her daughter wakes with eyes awide
Prepares to Kaga Church to ride.
Proud Karin sits upon her bed
Platting her golden locks about her head.
Proud Karin dons her silken robe,
A work of fifteen maidens sewed.
Proud Karin dons her blue cloak bright,
She rides to church now it is light.
She rides around a giant tree,
Now three herdsmen does she see.
They say to her, “Come be our wife,
Or thou shalt forfeit thy young life.”
“Do not lay a hand on me,
Or my father’s wrath ye’ll see.”
For thy kinsmen care not we,
We’ll kill them all as well as thee.”
The herdsmen three took her to wife
And then they took from her her life.
They took her by her golden hair
And dragged her ‘neath a birch tree there.
They took her by her golden head
And left her ‘gainst a birch tree, dead.
And on that spot her body lay,
Burst forth a spring, so legends say.
They stripped her of her golden robe,
Into their bundle was it stowed.
Her body in the mire they lay
And with her garments went away.
When this foul deed had they done,
They took the way that she had come.
They went along that wooded lane
Until they Vange Village came.
They came up to the farm of Tore
And found the farmer at his door.
Tore stood outside all clad in hide,
He came and let the men inside.
Then went they into Tore’s homestead,
Where they partook meat and bread.
A thought in Tore’s mind did turn:
Why does my daughter not return?
Ere Martha joined her man in bed,
The herdsmen came to her and said:
“Wilt thou have this silken robe,
Upon which some nine maidens sewed?”
Martha saw the robe in horror,
It filled her heart with deepest sorrow.
Martha kept herself from weeping.
Approached her man who was sleeping.
“Awake now, dearest husband mine,
For they have killed daughter thine.”
“They have her robe, I know her fate,
This strikes my heart a blow so great.”
Tore to avenge his daughter’s life
Rushes on the men with unsheathed knife.
He kills one, he kills another,
Now he falls on the little brother.
Now Tore casts his knife away.
“O Lord, forgive my deed this day.”
“How can I this deed atone?
To God, I’ll build a church of stone.”
“Gladly shall we do such work
– cold is the forest air –
Karna shall we call the kirk.”
– When green the trees are there.
Set during the time when Christianity is phasing out Nordic pantheism/paganism, and the struggle that ensues from the clash between Christianity and paganism in medieval Sweden, the film depicts a day in the life of a Swedish farming family: Tore (father), Mareta (his wife), Karin (their spolied and naive blonde-haired daughter), Professsor ( who has taken refuge at the family’s farm), the family maid; and Ingeri, the dark-haired, Odin-worshipping adopted daughter of Tore and Mareta.
Ingeri is pregnant, and the situation that has led up to her condition, is left to the viewer’s imagination. Ingeri has contempt for Karin because of her favoured status in the family, and as the only child of Tore and Mareta, and when Tore and Mareta instruct Karin to take votive candles to church for the Virgin Mary matins, Karin asks if Ingeri can accompany her. The parents allow them both to leave, telling them both to be back before dark.
Ingeri is told to prepare lunch for their departure. While putting their meal together, Ingeri sees a toad on the floor, picks it up, and puts it into an already halved loaf of bread. She intends for Karin to eat it. Before leaving, Karin has dressed in her finest embroidered clothes to present the votive candles to the Virgin Mary. They set off. As they go on their journey, Karin and Ingeri have harsh words between them about the men Karin danced with at a dance the night before. Karin slaps Ingeri, but, she apologizes to her. They come to an area to rest. They discuss marriage and Karin tells Ingeri that she will remain a virgin until married. Ingeri questions her that what if the man grabs her around the waist, or forces himself on her, then how will she keep her virginity? Karin states that she will fight him off. Ingeri says the man can still overpower her because he would be stronger than Karin, but, Karin pooh-poohs Ingeri. They continue on to where they meet a sorceror who still clings to the old pagan, Odin-worshipping beliefs. Ingeri becomes fearful of them continuing on, as it is now getting darker, and the forest has become foreboding to her. It does not help that as they came to the sorcerer’s home the girls saw a raven, a harbinger of doom.
Karin reassures Ingeri that she will get the votive candles to church in time to honor the Virgin Mary, and she asks the sorcerer to allow Ingeri to remain behind. Karin sets off, alone.
Not too long after her departure, Karin comes upon three herdsmen—–three brothers (two older men, and a young boy of about 9-10 years of age.) Unbeknownst to her, the men conspire to get Karin off deeper into the forest near a glade they know of. She consents. They come to the glade, sit down, Karin prepares the lunch for them, and instructs them to say grace first. While eating with them, she realizes they have ulterior motives to harm her, and she attempts to leave. Too late she realizes she is trapped. The older men attack, drag her to the ground and rape her, while the younger brother looks on in horror. After she is raped, Karin is in such shock that all she can do is stagger and moan at the loss of her innocence/virginity. One of the brothers, to end her suffering, picks up a tree limb, and brings it crashing down on her head, killing her. They strip Karin of her embroided clothes, leave her body, and threaten their younger brother with severe punishment if he leaves the goats they were tending. They go off, but, the younger brother starts off after them, but not after he has covered Karin’s body with some handfuls of dirt.
The brothers eventually make their way to Tore’s home, but unbeknownst to them, they have entered the home of the man whose daughter they raped and murdered. The three brothers spend the night, after having dinner with the family.
Later, when in the night Mareta hears a cry, she finds out from the Professor that the older brothers slapped the young brother (because of their fear that he would give them away.) Upon entering the room where they were sleeping, Mareta is offered her deceased daughter’s vestments by one of the men. He states that it belonged to their deceased sister, and they wanted to give the clothes to Mareta because they felt that she was a woman who could appreciate such fine cloth that surely “was sown by nine maidens.”
Mareta keeps her composure long enough to leave the room, starts grieving for her dead child, and in her foresight, bolts shut the door of the room where the herdsmen are residing, thereby locking them in. Mareta goes to Tore and tells him that their daughter is dead, and shows him Karin’s clothing. Tore gets prepared to wreak vengeance upon the men. He goes to the cellar, there sees Ingeri, who had made her way back home, hiding in fear. She tells Tore what happened, and how she did not attack the men with a rock she had in her hands, because of her animosity towards Karin. Tore instructs Ingeri to start a bath for him. He goes outside, tears down a birch tree with his bare hands, and later begins the process of cleansing himself before he commits his vengeance upon the men.
Tore kills the two older men and their young brother. He, Mareta, the maid, the Professor, and Ingeri go out to find Karin’s body. Upon finding her body, Tore is overcome with guilt at his vengeance upon the men who took his daughter from him. In his asking God for forgiveness, Tore promises to build a “church of stone and mason” upon the ground where his daughter was slain. As Tore and Mareta cradle their only child in their arms, they lift her body up, and from underneath where Karin’s head was, a spring starts flowing from the ground.
Hence the name of the movie.
One major aspect of the film is the dichotomy of Ingeri and Karin.
Ingeri: the used, dark, and debased girl.
Karin: the blonde, pure, and exalted girl.
Ingeri has been used and impregnated and is left to fend for herself in the world, alone. She has been discarded because she is pregnant, and as she states that the man is stronger, she has most possibly been raped or been the victim of sexual coercion. Ingeri is looked upon as a fallen woman, and will get no help or respect for the rest of her life. Even Karin’s father, Tore, allows himself to be naked in Ingeri’s presence as he readies himself to destroy his daughter’s rapists. This treating her as a thing, a table, or a dog, implies that she has no right to be respected for her sensibilities as a fellow human being.
Karin on the other hand, is the poor innocent lamb. She has been deflowered and cannot suffer this world anymore, and therefore, she must die, poor lamb, and cannot be allowed to live with the consequences of the rape. She is the one who must figuratively be thrown from the cliff, the birth of a nation girl who has suffered a fate worse than death.
For Karin, many tears would be shed.
For Ingeri, none.
We the viewers are made to feel sorrow for Karin, but none for Ingeri.
In the end, both girls have been wronged by a woman-fearing society, which in its culture, is no more different from many other societies around the world who consider virginity as the only value that a woman or girl has to offer.
Here, presented in its entirety, The Virgin Spring is a film about the coming to an end of the pagan worship of Nature, the pantheistic beliefs in the Norse gods of Thor, Odin, Freyer, Loki, and many others, and the advent of Christianity, and its monotheism. The film addresses the questioning of faith, the questioning of the existence of God, how can God allow cruelty and sin to occur in the world, and the hypocrisy of a double standard world that puts so little value on the lives of women and girls.
1944 The King Cole Trio charted with “I Can’t See For Lookin’, ” reaching #2 R&B and #24 pop. The trio would have twenty-five hits between 1942 and 1950 before their leader Nat King Cole would permanently go solo.
1950 Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers came up with one of the biggest hits of the ’40s when “Pink Champagne” charted, intoxicating its listeners to the tune of #1 R&B for thirteen weeks (#30 pop).
1950 Amos Milburn, a Houston, TX, blues artist, charted with “Walking Blues,” reaching #8 R&B. With Milburn it was all or nothing, as he had nineteen straight Top 10 R&B hits, including four #1s from 1948 to 1954. His biggest success was his first charter, “Chicken Shack Blues.”
1960 Sam Cooke performed at the Howard Theater in Washington, DC, while the Platters were in San Francisco at Fack’s #2 Club.
1972 Billy Preston charted with his biggest hit, “Outa-Space,” reaching #1 R&B and #2 pop.
1990 Aaron Neville performed at the Jazz & Heritage Festival’s twenty-first annual show in New Orleans.
1992 Whitney Houston performed on her first network TV special, Whitney Houston—This Is My Life, on ABC-TV. The show was produced by her own Nippy Inc. production company. Nippy was her nickname as a child.
1997 George Clinton and the Parliament/Funkadelic army were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at their twelfth annual ceremonies. The event was held at the hall’s Cleveland home for the first time. Among Clinton’s pre-music-career jobs, he was the foreman of a New Jersey Hula Hoop factory. Probably how he developed that great stage presence.
1945 Bluesman Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s chart debut was “Rock Me Mama,” and eventual #3 R&B. Crudup started singing with the gospel group The Harmonizing Four and was discovered by an Okeh Records A&R man while playing on a Chicago street corner.
1953 The legendary vocal group the Spaniels recorded their first 45, “Baby, It’s You.” The single is now a $4,500 rarity.
1969 Stevie Wonder received the Distinguished Service Award from the President’s Committee on Employment of Handicapped People by President Nixon at the White House.
1979 “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge charted, reaching #1 R&B and #2 pop. Background vocals were added by Luther Vandross, who watched and learned how his older sister did it when Patricia Vandross was a member of the ’50s hit group the Crests.
1988 Michael Jackson became the first non-Russian to appear on Soviet television endorsing a product.
1989 Natalie Cole appeared at the John Lennon Tribute Concert singing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “Ticket to Ride.” The event was held at the Pier Head Arena in Merseyside, England.
1990 En Vogue charted with “Hold On,” (#2) their first of twelve hits through 1996.
1995 In a campaign for Major League Baseball, Aretha Franklin appeared with the Detroit Tigers singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in their promotional video while LL Cool J did the same with the Seattle Mariners.
1946 Billy Eckstine charted with “Prisoner of Love,” reaching #3 R&B and #10 pop. The song would be later passionately revived in James Brown’s electric version.
1962 The latest edition of the Biggest Show of Stars 1962 tour began at Pittsburgh’s Syria Mosque, Featuring fats Domino, Don & juan, Brook Benton, the Impressions, and Gene Chandler.
1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience peaked at #3 with “Purple Haze” on the British charts, their second Top 10 hit in a row.
1991 Crystal Waters, niece of legendary vocalist Ethel Waters, vaulted onto the Top 100 with “Gypsy Woman.”
1993 In order to get his battered girlfriend to drop charges against him, Wilson Pickett paid a $6,500 fine along with $3,500 to the battered women’s shelter she was staying in.
1994 Toni Braxton was named the World’s Best-Selling R&B Newcomer of the Year at the sixth annual World Music Awards in Monte Carlo, Monaco, while Whitney Houston received the World’s Best-Selling pop Artist of the Year, Female recording Artist of the Year, American Recording Artist of the Year, R&B Artist of the Year, and Overall recording Artist awards.
Ann
BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 