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Over 400 different artists have recorded this song since the first recording in 1923. Margaret Walker and James Baldwin wrote poems from the song. It’s been refashioned as a musical, two novels, a short story, an award-winning graphic novel, Ph.D. dissertations and, in 2008, a pornographic feature film. The song has lived as Ragtime, a Broadway showtune, Blues, Jazz, Honky Tonk, Country, 50s Rock and Roll, Ska, Folk, Surf, 70s punk, Heavy Metal, 90s punk, Rap. Even Hawaiian. The song's character lives large in Gangsta Rap. Listen to it and we hear the evolution of modern music.
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During these times when the Anti-immigrant sentiment is dividing the country over the human rights of millions of undocumented immigrants,
Raices is making sure that we don’t forget the History of America.
Like the pilgrims and other people from Eroupe who Fled from political and religious persecussion left their homeland and their families for a better life and for freedom. America started under this premise.
Some people say that America is “Full” and are not sympathetic to the need of these new comers. They are even organizing and rallying against them. America was Full when their ancestors came 500 years ago. They did everything and anything to get rid of the indigenous people to make room for European colonization.
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Track wrong predictions by well-known pundits.
Links
links for 2009-03-31
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Download WordPress MU plugins, themes, translations and more
links for 2009-03-30
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Live concert recordings by various artists. NO OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL.
links for 2009-03-24
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Open source iPhone UI framework, including a photo browser, message composer, web image views, and other elements used in the Facebook app.
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Using Objective C++ to enhance the performance of iPhone applications. I didn't think the iPhone had a full C++ runtime, but apparently it does.
links for 2009-03-23
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African Photographer Malick Sidibé, was born in in 1935 or 1936, in Bamako, Mali, in what was then the French part of Sudan. He chronicled the exuberant life of the young people there in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, by making fun portraits of them in his studio, and also by documenting special events and parties
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Facebook Connect for iPhone is a set of classes that can be added to your xCode project and used to ease the process of logging into the site, granting extended permissions and posting status updates to the feed.
links for 2009-03-22
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I really love these
links for 2009-03-21
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An mp-free jazz blog focusing on rare or out-of-print music. We generally publish once a week. Songs will be available for a limited time, and are for evaluation purposes only. Attend concerts. Buy music.
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"On the 16th of February, the U.K. Government passed a law (in the Counter Terrorism Act) making it illegal to take a photograph of a police office, military personnel or member of the intelligence services—or a photograph which 'may be of use for terrorism.' This definition is vague at best, and open to interpretation by the police—who under Home Secretary guidelines can 'restrict photography in public places.' "
links for 2009-03-19
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Useful tips for managing memory in iPhone applications.
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Server written in Python that communicates with an Eye-Fi Card
links for 2009-03-16
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Epic tale of scamming a 419 scammer as Harry Potter.
links for 2009-03-15
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Here are some nice to have objective c macros for debugging.