Mid-Week Libation: Happy Juneteenth!
Celebrate with Henry Louis Gates Jr., R&R's Juneteenth Playlist, wisdom from Angela Davis, poetry from Countee Cullen, Chicago's All-Black burlesque show, and Juneteenth menu ideas galore!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
Happy Juneteenth! What’s on Your Juneteenth Menu?
Juneteenth Menu Ideas That Preserve the Holiday’s Culinary Traditions (via Cuisine Noir)
Juneteenth Joy: 19 Recipes to Fall in Love With (via Cuisine Noir)
My Juneteenth Menu Is a Celebration of Black Culture (via Epicurious)
R&R’s Juneteenth Celebration Playlist! Celebrate with Nina Simone, James Brown, Shea Diamond & More!
Our Hero Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the Significance and History of Juneteenth
“For a country built upon the love of freedom, any manifestation of the enjoyment of freedom should be celebrated by all our countrymen. Let's hope for that day.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr.
What Is Juneteenth? by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (via PBS.org)
Poem of the Week: “I Have a Rendezvous With Life” by by Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
I Have a Rendezvous With Life
by Countee Cullen
I have a rendezvous with Life,
In days I hope will come,
Ere youth has sped, and strength of mind,
Ere voices sweet grow dumb.
I have a rendezvous with Life,
When Spring's first heralds hum.
Sure some would cry it's better far
To crown their days with sleep
Than face the road, the wind and rain,
To heed the calling deep.
Though wet nor blow nor space I fear,
Yet fear I deeply, too,
Lest Death should meet and claim me ere
I keep Life's rendezvous.
Juneteenth Jump Off! Chicago’s All-Black Burlesque Show Takes Ownership of Juneteenth Liberation
All-Black burlesque show takes Juneteenth's spirit of liberation to the stage (via Chicago Sun-Times)
Interesting Artists Born Today: June 19th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of John Gibson, Maginel Wright Enright, Addison N. Scurlock, Louise Norton, John Heartfield, Napier Waller, Mary Edwell-Burke, Mary Callery, Eliot Hodgkin, Alcopley, Ernest Crichlow, Robert Klippel, Bryan Kneale, Chauncey Hare, Gillian Lowndes, Charles Gwathmey, Slobodan Pejić, Marcus Reichert, Mahfuzul Hasan Bhuiyan, Chris Berens and Stephanie Liner!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Mary Tenney Gray, José Rizal, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Laura Z. Hobson, Osamu Dazai, Henryka Łazowertówna, Mary TallMountain, Pauline Kael, Eliana Navarro, Patricia Wrightson, Delbert Tibbs, Julia Penelope, Tobias Wolff, Robert Palmer, Greil Marcus, Salman Rushdie, John Ralston Saul, Carmen Rodríguez, Subcomandante Marcos, Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Peter Bradshaw, Timothy Morton and Sarah Kay!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, Alfredo Catalani, Pat Ballard, Guy Lombardo, Joe Thomas, Ernest Ranglin, Shirley Goodman, Al Wilson, Jeff Moss, Chico Buarque, Nick Drake, Ann Wilson, Patty Larkin, Larry Dunn, Gene Dunlap, Big Bill Morganfield, Mark DeBarge, Billy Drummond, Paula Abdul and Macklemore!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of May Whitty, Moe Howard, Gena Rowlands, Merata Mita, Youn Yuh-jung, Phylicia Rashad, Kathleen Turner, Marga Gomez, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Dancy, Zoe Saldaña, Mía Maestro and Paul Dano!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Angela Davis
