Here’s a site you don’t want to miss. I won’t go into too much detail. If you know who John Coltrane is you’ll want to hop right over to johncoltrane.com and check out his biography, pictures, and other information. If you don’t know Coltrane then you’re in for a treat as you’re introduced to one of the giants of modern jazz.

The site is Flash based and provides a seamless integration of audio, video, text, and motion graphics. Enjoy!

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So my wife and I traveled down to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati the other day. When I got the directions I noticed it was on the corner of Rosa Parks and Freedom Way streets after turning off of Race Ave. Oh snap! Usually any street named after a black person in America is the last place you want to be. If you’re lost in a major city and end up on Martin Luthor King Jr. Blvd. get out as fast as you can. You’re probably in the heart of the ghetto (my dad calls it “the bucket of blood”) where even the cops fear to tread.

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I just wanted to turn folks on to this website. Rebellion tells the story of John Horse and the successful slave uprising of the1830s. It can be found at www.johnhorse.com. From the website:

“From 1835-1838 in Florida, the Black Seminoles, the African allies of Seminole Indians, led the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history.[1] The uprising peaked in 1836 when hundreds of slaves fled their plantations to join the rebel forces in the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). At the heights of the revolt, at least 385 slaves fought alongside the black and Indian Seminole allies, helping them destroy more than twenty-one sugar plantations in central Florida, at the time one of the most highly developed agricultural regions in North America.[2]” (more…)