Trumpet Newsmagazine

Trumpet Newsmagazine April Issue

D. Channsin Berry
Talks about the dreams that led him to the birth of his fraternal twins: Music & Film

Music is said to be many things to many people. For Maya Angelou, “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” To Ludwig van Beethoven, “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.” This quote with no known author, “Music is what feelings sound like,” perhaps, best connects to the man behind the music and the movies.
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April Features

DR. JEREMIAH WRIGHT INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF RESISTANCE

I sat in the airport in Selma, Alabama, on March 1st, remembering. I had just left the sacred Ancient Africa Enslavement and Civil War Museum, where Dr. Tony Browder is the curator. It was at the museum (on March 1st!) that I was inducted along with Dr. Na’im Akbar, Queen Mother Moore, and Dr. Haki Madhubuti, into the “Hall of Resistance.”

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SURVIVING SEXUAL ABUSE And the Church's Response

Childhood sexual abuse. Those three words together in a sentence are unfathomable to some, but a reality to many. Childhood—the time when we should be experiencing some of the happiest moments in our lives, yet, for reasons we cannot begin to understand, moments of our youth can turn into hell on Earth because of sexual abuse.

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