Are you a dj, radio host, or musician? Supersize the score! Do it on the web, the radio or at a club. You will need:
- a year when a black president is in office
- a day when president’s day falls on nina simone’s birthday
- nina simone songs
- a story about a black woman in your life who helped make this country the kind of place where Barack could be elected president. See my story here.
on the web: Make a Nina Simone mix. Post it to the web with your story. Ask viewers to post their stories in response.
on the radio: Play or sing Nina’s songs and tell your story. Ask listeners to call in and share theirs.
at a club: Play or sing Nina’s songs and tell your story. Ask listeners to post their stories on youtube with the title “Happy Black President’s Day Nina Simone” or send a card to President Obama. Free template here - or - Have people email their stories to aisha.cousins.studio[at]gmail.com and we’ll send cards for them!
conversation starters and trivia:
- did you know obama was 9 years old when nina release “young gifted and black”
- did you know president’s day won’t fall on nina’s birthday again til 2022. what do you think about it happening while our first black president is in office?
- on a scale of 0-5, 0 being funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter and 5 being young gifted & black, how would nina have felt about our 1st black president so far? ( or substitute your own songs)
- if nina had to lived to see obama become president, would she have moved back to the USA from France?
- would obama have asked her to perform at the inauguration with aretha?
- would nina have made a remix of mississippi goddam for sarah palin and the tea party?
- would she have written a song about obama?
- what kind of song would it have been?
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