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lauradi7dwIt's Quock Walker day (also known as MA emancipation day). The celebration in Lexington Center included performances by a group called Rhythms of Ghana. I can't find them online. I took a 10 second video but haven't transferred it from my phone. They had a LOT of drums. My janggu (I ordered the next size up from the kid one) is still in California but will supposedly be delivered by FEDEX by the end of the day on Wednesday, whatever that means. I am not sure I've ever had a FEDEX delivery work right, but that might be a slight exaggeration. I certainly don't need to buy a bunch of drums from Ghana as well, but they did fling a craving on me. I didn't buy Caribbean food from the nearby food truck, but did make collards with beans when I got home, inspired by what I saw on a friend's plate. (um, takeout container)
It is the anniversary of Frederick Douglass's famous speech "What to a slave is the 4th of July," delivered for NPR in 2020 by his descendants
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech
It is the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe being the first Black man to win a singles title at Wimbledon.
(thanks, Billie Jean King on twitter). I remember a headline at some point earlier than that (when I would still have been getting My Weekly Reader in school) that said "Arthur Ashe, the tennis smash." I was impressed by the rhyme at the time.
It is the anniversary of Frederick Douglass's famous speech "What to a slave is the 4th of July," delivered for NPR in 2020 by his descendants
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/03/884832594/video-frederick-douglass-descendants-read-his-fourth-of-july-speech
It is the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe being the first Black man to win a singles title at Wimbledon.
(thanks, Billie Jean King on twitter). I remember a headline at some point earlier than that (when I would still have been getting My Weekly Reader in school) that said "Arthur Ashe, the tennis smash." I was impressed by the rhyme at the time.
