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Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
The Little Apple Seed
Renaissance man, storyteller and radio host, Sam Payne featured the poetic storytelling of Paul Laurence Dunbar, brought to life by storytellers Mitch Capel & Oni Lasana. His radio show "The Little Apple Seed" grows and showcases storytellers of all genre's. Listen to this segment to hear how Paul Laurence Dunbar's works has touched the lives of so many storytellers...especially Mitch & Oni!
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Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
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Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry premiered in April of 2006 and is hosted by Clayton "Big Trigger" Corley Sr. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The concept of the online radio show is based on parings of jazz musicians and their poetic contemporaries.
The early shows highlighted the music of John Coltrane and the poetry of Amiri Baraka. Dinah Washington and George Benson. SOJP features both legends and the newer artists in both genres. SOJP is also known for its in-depth interviews with poets such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Sandra Turner-Barnes, Toni Love, and musicians, Mulgrew Miller, Odean Pope, Roy Ayers, Pat Martino, and more!
These interviews provide artists a international online forum to talk about their work and the creative process.
For SOJP's conversation with Oni Lasana and other fabulous artists.
Oni's Diary : Muse : Considering something carefully
I Dreamt, Martin Luther King Jr.
I had a dream too, Martin Luther King Jr.
your dream came true
& people looked inside of me
not at the shape or size of me
not at the color or style of me
they looked at my inner reality
not the outside fantasy
I dreamt your dream came true…Mr. King
Marcus Garvey wasn’t ridiculed & called a fool
Ruby Bridges walked to school alone
Malcolm wasn’t murdered by his own
Miss Rosa enjoyed her bus ride home
Emmitt Till was alive today
Medgar Evers wasn’t murdered in his driveway
Steve Biko lived to write another day
Tupac represented the best of us
Rodney King wasn’t beaten alive in front of us
&
Marvin was asking me “What’s goin’ on?”
I dreamt that your dream came true Rev. King
& young adults today were livin’ clean
not smokin’ tobacco, cronic, droppin’ pills, hittin’ crack
downin’ 40’s & gettin’ wacked
dreaming stupid dreams
nothing to do but get hi & lie…or so it seems
living nightmares shooting down tomorrow’s dreams
I dreamt your dream came true Minister King
& in concrete jungles everywhere
sons and daughters of criminals and righteous folks
were sitting at a table together
learning & teaching one another to read & to LOVE
I was dreaming and your dream came true Teacher King
& all children attended equally integrated schools
where students were not judged by the color of skin
or the color of Nike, Dickie’s, Akademik’s
but by the work they handed in on time
to teachers who really cared
I had a dream that your dream came true Brother King & in my dreams
I saw boys and girls of all races joining hands in agape love
little children holding hands of baby daddies
baby daddies married to & taking care of baby mommies
& they both had good jobs, careers, and businesses.
I dreamt your dream came true Mr. King &
I heard that same freedom bell ring
in every town from Africa to America,
Europe to Asia, South America to the Caribbean
starving children came running to dinner tables
filled with pesticide-free fruits & vegetables
BROWN rice, sugar, bread and molasses,
UN-contaminated water
& hormone free well-seasoned chicken
I dreamt that TV showed real people living true reality
& “FRIENDS”…didn’t all look the same
Disney wasn’t another name for distorted history & modern mythology
I dreamt that Eddie, Martin, Will* & the Wayan’s
produced black history biographies & multicultural realities
Black & whites & all “others” UNITED in mutual funds
not only for sex, drugs & guns
I had a dream too, that your dream came true Brother King
& two weeks after your vision in DC
four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama.
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mc Nair, Cynthia Wesley & Carole Robertson
walked home from church to waiting mommies
& the next day they went to a shiny new school
with smiling & loving classmates
each one of those little girls graduated college
becoming a doctor to heal us
A teacher to teach us, a lawyer for justice
& President of Human Rights University
Your dream came true Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because in my dream, their you were…
home with Mrs. King & your children,
playin’ with grandchildren
inside the not so-white house
being the PRESIDENT of the United States of LOVE
So brave…so intelligent…so blessed
relaxing with your family & friends
& everybody knew…without a doubt
they were “FREE AT LAST!”
& truly somebody.
Just like I do, thanks to you
Martin Luther King Jr.,
I dreamt your dream, came true.
(C) 1999 I Dreamt, Martin Luther King, Jr. - Oni Lasana, Real Tales of Rhymes and Reasons
(SR) 2005 I Dreamt, MLK Jr. - Words by Oni Lasana - Music by Samori Coles
Available on CD Baby & on all digital music platforms.
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