Adlib to Fade

22 Jan 2014

Bayard Rustin (Black, Gay and Pacifist)

Labi Siffre – I Got The
Movie Trailer – Brother Outsider (2003)
Ike and Tina Turner – I Idolise You

Jessie Mae Hemphill – I’m So Glad
Movie excerpt – Brother Outsider (early freedom rider 1947)
Aretha Franklin – River’s Initiation
Stevie Wonder – Creepin’

Movie excerpt – Brother Outsider (gay man in the Civil Rights movement)
Nuyorican Soul – I am the Black Gold of the Sun (remix)

De La Soul – Stakes is High
Movie excerpt – “Boycott” (2001) – Bayard meets Coretta Scott King
Andy Bey – Hibiscus

Democracy Now excerpt – Black gay and pacifist
The Staple Singers – Long Walk to DC
Patterson – Freedom Now
Speech excerpt – MLK addresses the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Nina Simone – Why? ( the king of love is dead)
Lonnie Liston Smith – Expansions

Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues
Movie excerpt – Brother Outsider (Bayard debates Malcolm X)
Black Panther chants
Isaac Hayes – Soulsville

Democracy Now excerpt – Bayard is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
WAR – Sweet Fighting Lady

Miles Davis – John McLaughlin