Complicated released in 2025

"Children with a complex, mysterious illness and their parents are branded 'too complicated' and risk losing everything due to false accusations of medical child abuse."

normalizes Elvis when he culturally appropriated Black Music so I rated it at 1

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2025-02-16 05:49:51

The Beatles just carried it a bit further, made [Black music] a bit more white, even more than Elvis did...

There is not one white group on Earth that hasn’t got [Black people's] music in them

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Growing list of those born or died on September 28 in any year

Peter Finch
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2026-09-27 21:10:36

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an [english] and Australian actor. ...

Finch won five BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and the Academy Award in the same category for his portrayal of crazed television

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Growing list of those born or died on September 24 in any year

Pharoah Sanders
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2026-09-23 12:32:49

Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. ... Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through

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#islam #muslim #blackmusic #johncoltrane #spirituality #blackmastodon

Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. ... Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through

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#islam #muslim #blackmusic #johncoltrane #spirituality #blackmastodon

The Beatles just carried it a bit further, made [Black music] a bit more white, even more than Elvis did...

There is not one white group on Earth that hasn’t got [Black people's] music in them

#blackpeople #blackmusic #whitepeople #blackmastodon #music

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Growing list of those born or died on September 18 in any year

Jada Pinkett Smith
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)

2026-09-17 10:25:15

Jada Koren Pinkett Smith (née Pinkett; born September 18, 1971) is an American actress, businesswoman, and talk show host. ...

Pinkett Smith landed her big break on the sitcom A Different World in 1991. ... her prominent contributions to

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Douglas Davis (born September 17, 1966), known professionally as Doug E. Fresh, is a Barbadian-born American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer, also known as the "Human Beat Box". The pioneer of 20th-century American beatboxing ...

Personal life
Fresh is a member of the Church of Scientology.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_E._Fresh

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Growing list of those born or died on September 17 in any year

Harriet Robinson Scott
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2026-09-16 07:39:53

Harriet Robinson Scott (c. 1820 – June 17, 1876) was an African American woman who fought for her freedom alongside her husband, Dred Scott [(c. 1799 – September 17, 1858)], for eleven years. Their legal battle culminated in the infamous

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Growing list of those born or died on September 16 in any year

Robert Redford
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2026-08-04 02:19:49

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave.

...Beyond his artistic career, Redford was noted for his

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Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known mononymously as Nas, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and record producer. ...

Early life
His father, Olu Dara (born Charles Jones III), is a jazz and blues musician from

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Growing list of those born or died on September 13 in any year

Muriel Smith
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)

2026-09-12 06:42:01

Muriel Burrell Smith (February 23, 1923 – September 13, 1985) was an American singer. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a star of musical theater and opera, and was also the off-film ghost singer in several hit movies. She is perhaps best known in the

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Muriel Burrell Smith (February 23, 1923 – September 13, 1985) was an American singer. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a star of musical theater and opera, and was also the off-film ghost singer in several hit movies. She is perhaps best known in the

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Growing list of those born or died on September 9 in any year

James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor

Harold Alonza Franklin Sr.
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)

2025-09-09 01:04:38

Harold Alonza Franklin Sr. (November 2, 1932 – September 9, 2021) was [a Black] American academic who became the first [Black] student to attend Auburn University in 1964 after

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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackacademics #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackmastodon

Growing list of those born or died on Sept 11 in any year

Taraji P Henson
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2026-09-10 01:53:53

Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, producer, author, and mental health advocate. ...

In 2016, she portrayed mathematician Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures. ...

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#blackfilm #blackwomen #92precent #animalrights #lgbtq #vegan #blackmastodon

Peter Tosh OM GCOT (born Winston Hubert McIntosh; 19 October  1944 – 11 September 1987) was a Jamaican musician and reggae singer. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963

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Growing list of those born or died on September 10 in any year

Michaela Mabinty DePrince
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2025-09-10 05:45:08

Michaela Mabinty DePrince (born Mabinty Bangura; January 6, 1995 –

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Growing list of those born or died on September 7 in any year

Aaron M. Campbell would have been 42 on September 7, 2026.
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)

2025-01-29 15:24:38

The Jan. 29, 2010, police [murder] of Aaron M. Campbell, an unarmed Black man shot in the back after officers arrived to check on his welfare, drew intense scrutiny

#blackmen #blackamerican #blackpeople #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackmastodon

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Growing list of those born or died on September 6 in any year

Sylvester James Jr.
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)

2026-09-05 01:27:09

Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988), known simply as Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter. Primarily active in the genres of disco, rhythm and blues, and soul, he was known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance,

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#blackmusic #blackmastodon

Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988), known simply as Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter. Primarily active in the genres of disco, rhythm and blues, and soul, he was known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance,

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#blackmusic #blackmastodon

Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist ...

Early in the morning of December 14, 1963, Washington's last husband, football player Dick "Night Train" Lane,

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#blackmusic #blackwomen #blackmastodon

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. ...

[MJ was and is innocent as shown below. Now leave him tf alone.]

In the second half of 1993, Jackson faced controversy

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#blackmusic #blackmastodon

Lillian Hardin Armstrong (née Hardin; February 3, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader. She was the second wife of Louis Armstrong,

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Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (born August 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and television host. ...

Early life
Her mother is a high school teacher who works with autistic children. ...

The nickname "Keke" is

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Growing list of those born or died on August 25 in any year

Aaliyah
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Courttia Newland (born 25 August 1973) is a [british] writer.

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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)

2026-08-24 10:44:20

Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contemporary R&B,

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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contemporary R&B,

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John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ...

He was the youngest of the 11 children of William Hooker (born 1871, died after 1923), a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and

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Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. ...

The child of a sharecropper family, Hayes grew up working on farms in the Tennessee counties of Shelby and Tipton.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes

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John Lester Nash Jr. (August 19, 1940 – October 6, 2020)[2] was an American singer and songwriter, best known in the United States for his 1972 hit "I Can See Clearly Now"

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Paul Williams (July 2, 1939 – August 17, 1973) was an American baritone singer. He was noted for being one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Motown group the Temptations. Personal problems and failing health forced Williams to retire in 1971 and, aged 34, he was found dead two years later as the result of an apparent suicide.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(The_Temptations_singer)

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I'm revisiting films from 1999 and before

New Jack City released in 1991

I gave away all my vinyl to Oxfam. The volunteer who received them lay them flat which damages them; but kept

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#blackfilm #greatfilm #blackmusic #misogynoir #toxicmasculinity #incel #blackmastodon

The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians,

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#blackhistory #blackmusic #blackcomedians #blackmastodon

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist...

Early life and career
Elementary school classmates called him "cannonball" (i.e., "cannibal") after his voracious appetite...

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The Sax Man released in 2014

An aging, down-and-out street musician finds renewed purpose when he gets a surprise opportunity to play the big stage for the first time in 40 years.

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[Donald Myrick was executed by pigs.]

...(April 6, 1940 – July 30, 1993) was [a Black] American saxophonist. …he was best known

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Brian Joseph Burton (born July 29, 1977), known professionally as Danger Mouse, is an American musician and record producer.

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Gloria Hallelujah Woods (born July 28, 1999), known professionally as GloRilla, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloRilla

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Alfarita Constantia "Rita" Marley (née Anderson; born 25 July 1946) is a Jamaican reggae singer. She is the widow of reggae musician Bob Marley. Along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, Rita was a member of the reggae vocal group the I Threes, and the backing vocalists for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mar…

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Abraham Laboriel López (born July 17, 1947) is [an Afro] Mexican-American bassist who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player magazine called him "the most widely used session bassist of our time".

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