It is No Measure of Health to be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society ~~ SINÉAD O'CONNOR

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/28/it-is-no-measure-of-health-to-be-well-adjusted-to-a-profoundly-sick-society-2/

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Tina Turner RIP - Music Friday for Class Strugglers

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tina-turner-dead-at-age-83-210605484.html

~~ recommended by newestbeginning ~~

Gordon Lightfoot, RIP ~~ Music Friday for Class Struggleers

 https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/133464279/gordon-lightfoot-canadian-folk-legend-dies-at-84

An icon fondly remembered from my childhood; rest in peace, Gordon Lightfoot

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SARAH VAUGHAN (1924-1990) ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/vaughan-sarah-1924-1990/

~~ recommended by fuster ~~

Harry Belafonte: Singer, actor and unshakeable civil rights activist ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 https://news.yahoo.com/harry-belafonte-singer-actor-unshakeable-162926673.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

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Ahmad Jamal - 1930-2023 - Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/ahmad-jamal-was-a-modest-colossus-of-jazz?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker

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Bill Evans, 1929-1980 ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers

~~ recommended by fuster ~~

OSCAR EMMANUEL PETERSON (1925-2007) ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers

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Nina Simone 1933-2003 - Friday Music Thread for Class Strugglers

 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nina-simone

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Wayne Shorter, Jazz Legend Who Collaborated With Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell, Dead at 89 ~~ Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 Wayne Shorter, RIP

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Burt Bacharach - RIP - Music Friday for Class Strugglers

 https://www.biography.com/musicians/burt-bacharach

Lots of Backarach's music was played on the radio station my parents listened to growing up so there are many fond memories associated with it.  He died from natural causes at 94.  RIP

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Mike Davis: 1946-2022 RIP

 ~~  recommended by dmorista ~~

Mike Davis Was the Best Socialist Writer of the Last Half Century ~~ OWEN HATHERLEY

 https://jacobin.com/2022/10/mike-davis-socialist-writing-books-obituary?mc_cid=2175f9db96&mc_eid=2206b60e8c

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Kathy Boudin, Tireless Fighter for Justice — Rest in Power ~~ Bill Ayers May 09, 2022

 https://truthout.org/articles/kathy-boudin-tireless-fighter-for-justice-rest-in-power/

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bell hooks, Black Feminist Scholar and Intellectual Giant, Has Died, aged 69

https://truthout.org/articles/bell-hooks-black-feminist-scholar-and-intellectual-giant-has-died/

and 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/15/bell-hooks-author-and-activist-dies-aged-69

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In acclaimed works Ain’t I a Woman and All About Love the writer shared her ideas about race, feminism and romance with flair and compassion