RISE

5th Street Dicks Coffee House

A Tribe Called Quest

Aesop

Africa

Ramona Afrika

Muhammad Ali

As Serious As Your Life

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)

Ella Baker

Amiri Baraka

Romare Bearden

Harry Belafonte

Steve Biko

Black Artists Group (BAG)

Black Arts Movement (BAM)

Black Jazz Records

Black Panther Party

Blues People

Aura Bogado

Brass

Anthony Browder

James Brown

Samuel Brown

Steve Buchannon

Amilcar Cabral

Stokely Carmichael

John W. Carlos and Tommy C. Smith

Fidel Castro

Cesar Chavez

Hugo Chavez

Noam Chomsky

Jesus Christ

Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Kelan Phil Cohran

Alice & John Coltrane..

Kamau Daaood

Angela Davis

Frederick Douglas

W.E.B. Du Bois

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Ralph Ellison

ESP-Disk'

Marcus Garvey

Siddhartha Gautama

Mahatma Ghandi

Giant Step

Amy Goodman

George W. Goodman

Che Guevara

Thich Nhat Hahn
(with respect to the Plum Village Practice Center)

Alex Haley

Fannie Lou Hamer

Chairman Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton, Jr.

Billy Higgins

Joe Hill

Lou Hill

Hip Hop

Carl Holland

Carrie C. Holland; William Holland

bell hooks

Howling Monk

Langston Hughes

Hurricane Katrina
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Zora Neal Hurston

Ifa

Imhotep

Brian Jackson

George Jackson

Mahalia Jackson

Mumia Abu Jamal

Maulana Karenga

Jomo Kenyatta

Tsehaie Kidane

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Kool Herc

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Byard Lancaster

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Bill Lee

Spike Lee

Leimert Park

Los Angeles Uprising (1992)

Patrice Lumumba

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)

Bob Marley

Beatrice C. Maxwell

Felicia Maxwell

Miles Malik Maxwell

Curtis Mayfield

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Charles Mingus

Nature

Carlos Nino

Kwame Nkrumah

Pacifica Radio

Rosa Parks

The People

Sidney Poitier

Margaret Prescod

Sun Ra

Phil Ranelin

Max Roach

Paul Robeson

Randall Robinson

Arundhati Roy

Gil Scott-Heron

Adele Sebastian

Assata Shakur

Beverly Smith

Songs Of The Unsung : The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott

The Soul Children

Space

Strata Records

Strata-East Records

Horace Tapscott

Bingwa Thomas

Tribe Records

Dwight Trible

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Kwame Ture

Lao Tzu

U.G.M.A.A.

Unity

United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Universal Zulu Nation

Congresswoman Maxine Waters

Watts Uprising

Cornel West

Stanley "Tookie" Williams

Dr. Amos Wilson

August Wilson

The World Stage

Richard Wright

Zapatismo

Howard Zinn

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8 BOLD SOULS

NASAR ABADEY & SUPERNOVA

FUASI ABDUL-KHALIQ

IDRIS ACKAMOOR

GEORGE ADAMS

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY; NAT ADDERLEY; HAROLD ALEXANDER; ALI PLAYS THE BLUES / FEAT. ROYAL BLUE

RASHIED ALI

THURMAN ALLEN QUINTET; ALMANAC; BARRY ALTSCHUL; GENE AMMONS

CURTIS AMY

DWIGHT ANDREWS; MAYA ANGELOU; LOUIS ARMSTRONG; HORACEE ARNOLD; ROSCOE MITCHELL ART ENSEMBLE

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO

DOROTHY ASHBY

MULATU ASTATQE; ARCHIE SHEPP ATTICA BLUES BIG BAND

THE AWAKENING

ROY AYERS

ALBERT AYLER

B SHARP JAZZ QUARTET

BILLY BANG

AMIRI BARAKA; GATO BARBIERI; KENNY BARRON

GARY BARTZ

COUNT BASIE

GHASEM BATAMUNTU

ALVIN BATISTE; GEORGE BENSON

JOHN BETSCH SOCIETY

ANDY BEY; FARUQ Z. BEY; GARY BIAS

BIG BLACK

WALTER BISHOP, JR.

BLACK NOTE

BLACK UNITY TRIO

LOU BLACKBURN

CINDY BLACKMAN

ART BLAKEY

PAUL BLEY

BLACK ARTHUR BLYTHE

WILLIE BOBO; GREG BOBULINSKI; JOSEPH BONNER; DOLLAR BRAND; THE BRASS COMPANY; LESTER BOWIE'S BRASS FANTASY; ROY BROOKS

TINA BROOKS

BROTHER AH

EVERETT BROWN JR.; OSCAR BROWN, JR.

MARION BROWN

BOBBY BRYANT; BOBBY BRYANT, JR.; RAY BRYANT

BUILD AN ARK

DAVE BURRELL; KENNY BURRELL; JAKI BYARD; DONALD BYRD; DON BYRON; BILLY "C"; GEORGE CABLES; HADLEY CALIMAN; RED CALLENDER

ROY CAMPBELL

CANDIDO; DOUG CARN

BETTY CARTER

JAMES CARTER; MICHAEL CARVIN; MARC CARY; THE TEDDY CHARLES NEW DIRECTIONS QUARTET

DAVID ORNETTE CHERRY

DON CHERRY

F. VATTEL CHERRY

CHICAGO UNDERGROUND TRIO; BILLY CHILDS

CURTIS CLARK

KENNY CLARKE; STANELY CLARKE; ALEX CLINE; PHILIP COHRAN AND THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE; GEORGE COLEMAN

ORNETTE COLEMAN

STEVE COLEMAN; JOHNNY COLES

RAY COLLINS

ALICE COLTRANE

JOHN COLTRANE

RAVI COLTRANE; COMPOSERS WORKSHOP ENSEMBLE; NORMAN CONNORS; CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET; JUNIOR COOK; CHICK COREA

JAYNE CORTEZ

JACKIE McLEAN AND THE COSMIC BROTHERHOOD; THE COSMIC TWINS; KENNY COX AND THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET

STANLEY COWELL

CREATIVE ARTS ENSEMBLE; SONNY CRISS AND HIS ORCHESTRA

TED CURSON

KING CURTIS; ANDREW CYRILLE

DA LION FEAT. LEON MOBLEY

KAMAU DAAOOD; ANTHONY DAVIS

DR. ART DAVIS

CHARLES DAVIS

MILES DAVIS

NATHAN DAVIS

RICHARD DAVIS

ERNEST DAWKINS NEW HORIZONS ENSEMBLE

JACK DE JOHNETTE; THE DESCENDENTS OF MIKE AND PHOEBE

DWIGHT DICKERSON

WALT DICKERSON

ERIC DOLPHY

KENNY DORHAM; KENNY DREW; KENO DUKE/CONTEMPORARIES

JOHNNY DYANI

CHARLES EARLAND; CLEAVLAND EATON; MARTY EHRLICH; EITHER ORCHESTRA

KAHIL EL 'ZABAR

DUKE ELLINGTON; BOB REID/THE EMERGENCY SOUND; BOB EMRY; EQUAL INTEREST

BOOKER ERVIN

ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE

KEVIN EUBANKS; BILL EVANS; GIL EVANS; AVERY SHARPE EXTENDED FAMILY III; JON FADDIS

FAMILY OF PERCUSSION

SHAMEK FARRAH

DALE FIELDER

JIMMY FORREST

SONNY FORTUNE

THE FOURTH WAY; BILLY PARKER'S FOURTH WORLD

HENRY "THE SKIPPER" FRANKLIN

CHICO FREEMAN; CURTIS FULLER; FUNK INC.; CARLOS GARNETT

EDDIE GALE

STANTON DAVIS' GHETTO MYSTICISM

DIZZY GILLESPIE; NIKKI GIOVANNI; EGBERTO GISMONTI

BABS GONZALEZ

DEXTER GORDON; JOHN GORDON; THE GOW-DOW EXPERIENCE

RICHARD GRANT

AL GREY; WARDELL GRAY

GRANT GREEN

DICK GRIFFIN; JOHNNY GRIFFIN

HENRY GRIMES

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GRIOT GALAXY

EARL AND CARL GRUBBS; BOB GUTHRIE QUARTET; CHARLIE HADEN; JIM HALL; CHICO HAMILTON

DOUG HAMMOND

HERBIE HANCOCK; JOHN HANDY; HAR-YOU PERCUSSION GROUP; BILL HARDMAN; RUFUS HARLEY

BILLY HARPER

BILLIE HARRIS; EDDIE HARRIS; THE UNHEARD HERB HARRIS

PETER J. HARRIS

STEFON HARRIS; WENDELL HARRISON; BILLY HART; JOHNNY HARTMAN

HAMPTON HAWES

LOUIS HAYES; ROLAND HAYNES; ROY HAYNES; THE HEATH BROTHERS; ALBERT HEATH; JIMMY HEATH; PERCY HEATH; JOE HENDERSON

KARLTON HESTER AND THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ART MOVEMENT

JOHN HICKS

BILLY HIGGINS;

ANDREW HILL

LINDA HILL

BILLIE HOLIDAY; DAVE HOLLAND; RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES; SHIRLEY HORN

FRED HOUN & THE AFRO-ASIAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE

OWEN HOWARD; MICHAEL HOWELL; FREDDIE HUBBARD; LANGSTON HUGHES; HUMAN ARTS ENSEMBLE; BOBBY HUTCHERSON; ABDULLAH IBRAHIM; SOLOMON ILORI AND HIS AFRO-DRUM ENSEMBLE; THE INFINITI PROJECT

WELDON IRVINE

VIJAY IYER; MICHAEL GREGORY JACKSON; MILT JACKSON; AHMAD JAMAL

KHAN JAMAL

KEITH JARRETT; JAZZ CONTEMPORARIES; JAZZ CRUSADERS; JAZZ SYMPHONICS; EDDIE JEFFERSON; JOHN JENKINS; LEROY JENKINS; BRUCE JOHNSON

GEORGE V. JOHNSON, JR.

HAROLD JOHNSON

HOWARD JOHNSON AND GRAVITY

J.J. JOHNSON; LAMONT JOHNSON; RUDOLPH JOHNSON; ELVIN JONES; RODNEY JONES; SAM JONES; WILLIE JONES III; CLIFFORD JORDAN; JUJU

ED KELLY

RICKEY KELLY; ROBIN KENYATTA; CALVIN KEYS; RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK; DADISI KOMOLAFE; PAT LABARBERA

BYARD LANCASTER

THE LAST POETS; YUSEF LATEEF

AZAR LAWRENCE

HUBERT LAWS; PRINCE LAWSHA; JAMES LEARY; BILL LEE; O'DONEL LEVY; BILL LEWIS; RAMSEY LEWIS; TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME; KIRK LIGHTSEY; ABBEY LINCOLN; BOOKER LITTLE; THE LITTLETON BROTHERS

CHARLES LLOYD

GIUSEPPI LOGAN; JOE LOVANO; FRANK LOWE; REGGIE LUCAS; CARMEN LUNDY; JOHNNY LYTLE; M'BOOM; CECIL McBEE; LES McCANN; FREDDIE McCOY; BROTHER JACK McDUFF; HOWARD McGHEE

KEN McINTYRE

HAROLD McKINNEY

JACKIE McLEAN

LLOYD McNEIL; MARIAN McPARTLAND; CARMEN McRAE; HAROLD MABERN JR.; MACHITO; MICHAEL WHITE'S MAGIC MUSIC COMPANY

MAIA

RENE MARIE; BRANFORD MARSALIS; MILTON MARSH; OWEN MARSHALL; HUGH MASEKELA

CAL MASSEY

SABIR MATEEN; BOBBY MATOS AFRO-LATIN ENSEMBLE; MAULAWI

BENNIE MAUPIN

MYRA MELFORD; AMINA CLAUDINE MEYERS; CHARLES MINGUS; ROBERTO MIGUEL MIRANDA; BLUE MITCHELL

NICOLE MITCHELL

MIXED BAG; HANK MOBLEY; THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET; THE CHARLES MOFFETT FAMILY; MOMBASA; T. S. MONK; THELONIOUS MONK; MONK MONTGOMERY; WES MONTGOMERY; JAMES MOODY

JASON MORAN

LEE MORGAN

NATE MORGAN

BUTCH MORRIS

CHARLES OWENS' MOTHERLODE; PAUL MOTIAN & THE E.B.B.B.; ADAM RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES; FAMOUDOU DON MOYE; MTUME

DAWAN MUHAMMAD

DAVID MURRAY; ONAJE MURRAY & P.S. ISLAND

CHARLES TOLLIVER'S MUSIC INC.

BERT MYRICK; NAJITE AND THE OGUN PROPHECY; MORRIS NANTON; BOBBY NAUGHTON UNITS; FATS NAVARRO; OLIVER NELSON; THE NEW CHAMBER JAZZ ORCHESTRA; THE NEW YORK BASS VIOLIN CHOIR; DAVID NEWMAN; JAMES NEWTON

HERBIE NICHOLS

NOW CREATIVE ARTS JAZZ ENSEMBLE; GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP; NY5; OLATUNJI; OLD AND NEW DREAMS; GRASSELLA OLIPHANT QUARTETTE; THE OPENERS; ANTHONY ORTEGA; COUNT OSSIE AND THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

HAROLD OUSLEY

OUT OF THE BLUE; CHARLES OWENS; JIMMY OWENS; NATHEN PAGE

PAN-AFRIKAN PEOPLES ARKESTRA

CHARLIE PARKER; ERROL PARKER

JEFF PARKER

LEON PARKER

WILLIAM PARKER

HORACE PARLAN; LONGINEU PARSONS; KELLEE PATTERSON; JOHN PATTON; CECIL PAYNE; DUKE PEARSON

CHARLI PERSIP

HOUSTON PERSON; MARVIN "HANNIBAL" PETERSON; OSCAR PETERSON QUARTET; PIANO CHOIR

LONNIE PLAXICO

KING PLEASURE; ROY PORTER; POSITIVE FORCE W/ADE OLATUNJI; BUD POWELL; ROLAND PRINCE

DUDU PUKWANA

DON PULLEN; FLORA PURIM; THE PYRAMIDS; QUARTETTE TRES BIEN; IKE QUEBEC; ALVIN QUEEN;

SUN RA

SUN RA ARKESTRA

HUGH RAGIN; LOUIS RAMIREZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA; PHIL RANELIN; FRED RAULSTON; VI REDD; RUFUS REID; STEVE REID

DERF REKLAW

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE; LARRY RIDLEY; KAHIL EL 'ZABAR'S RITUAL TRIO

SAM RIVERS

MAX ROACH; SONNY ROLLINS; WILLIAM ROPER

MICHELE ROSEWOMAN

RENEE ROSNES

CHARLES ROUSE

GONZALO RUBALCABA TRIO; ADAM RUDOLPH; ROSWELL RUDD; PATRICE RUSHEN; GENE RUSSELL; GEORGE RUSSELL; DAVID SANCHEZ

PHAROAH SANDERS

SAM SANDERS AND VISIONS; MONGO SANTAMARIA; SANTANA; SHIRLEY SCOTT; GIL SCOTT-HERON; ADELE SEBASTIAN

MICHAEL SESSION

JAMIL SHABAKA; SHADOW VIGNETTES; AVERY SHARPE; JESSE SHARPS; SONNY SHARROCK; WOODY SHAW

ARCHIE SHEPP

MATTHEW SHIPP

WAYNE SHORTER; HORACE SILVER; ARTIE SIMMONS AND THE JAZZ SAMARITANS; NORMAN SIMMONS QUINTET

SONNY SIMMONS

NINA SIMONE; PETE LA ROCA SIMS; CHRISTY SMITH; JIMMY SMITH

WADADA LEO SMITH

LONNIE SMITH; LONNIE LISTON SMITH; SONELIUS SMITH; ROY PORTER SOUND MACHINE

JOSHUA SPEIGELMAN

SPIRIT OF LIFE ENSEMBLE

STICKS AND STONES

SONNY STITT; STONE ALLIANCE; BILLY STRAYHORN; JOHN STUBBLEFIELD

MONETTE SUDLER

CHARLES SULLIVAN

SUPERNOVA

BILLY BANG'S SURVIVAL ENSEMBLE; SWEET BABY J'AI; JUDE SWIFT;

HORACE TAPSCOTT

TAUMBU INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA

CECIL TAYLOR

JOHN TCHICAI; PATRICK CRESS TELEPATHY; BUDDY TERRY

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LEON THOMAS

CHESTER THOMPSON; LUCKY THOMPSON; MALACHI THOMPSON; HENRY THREADGILL AND MAKE A MOVE; BOBBY TIMMONS; HIDEAKI TOKUNAGA

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CHARLES TOLLIVER

DWIGHT TRIBLE

MARK TURNER; STEVE TURRE; STANELY TURRENTINE

CHARLES TYLER

McCOY TYNER; ROY AYERS UBIQUITY; UJAAMA FEAT. NATE MORGAN; UKUUNKI; UNITY; RAY VEGA LATIN JAZZ SEXTET; HAROLD VICK; LEROY VINNEGAR; THE VISITORS

WABERI

ABDUL WADUD; MAL WALDRON

WALI AND THE AFRO CARAVAN

VINCE WALLACE; CEDAR WALTON

DAVID S. WARE

CHESTER WASHINGTON; GROVER WASHINGTON, JR.

SALIM WASHINGTON & RBA

TYRONE WASHINGTON; ERIC WATSON; ROBERT WATSON; ERNIE WATTS; BEN WEBSTER; DAVID WERTMAN; RANDY WESTON

NEDRA WHEELER

ANDREW WHITE

MICHAEL WHITE

AL WILLIAMS QUINTET PLUS ONE

TONY WILLIAMS

BUSTER WILLIAMS

MARY LOU WILLIAMS TRIO

LARRY WILLIS

GERALD WILSON ORCHESTRA

JACK WILSON

JOE LEE WILSON

JOHN WOOD; WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET

FRANK WRIGHT

MALIK YAQUB; YESTERDAY'S NEW QUINTET

LARRY YOUNG

LESTER YOUNG

HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID