بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

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As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Beloved Brothers & Sisters

I pray Allah you all had a blessed and magnificent weekend. I am happy to report that I did too, I thank Allah!

By far the highlight of my weekend was when I saw Ibnana! I was in the neighborhood because I had planned to go to LACMA but the bus took forever, so I ended up going to Target and riding around Black Beverly Hills. And since I was so close, Allah Told Me To Go See IBNANA.

I hadn’t seen him since the week before Mother’s Day and we just started talking again, so I just went over there. He lives with my father and I REALLY didn’t want to see him, so I was faced with the task of figuring out how to get him outside.

Luckily, his friend was outside his house and he went and got him.

When I tell you my son is dope, believe me.

He bought a 24 karat gold-plated chain and he was blinging.

He wears jewelry like I wear jewelry.

It can be Walmart, gold-plated glass but on us looks like $15,000.00 Tiffany’s.

He is so funny and can dance and super-SMART, just like Zawji.

Not to mention he looks so much like him it’s scary.

But we had a REALLY good visit. He was SOOOO happy to see me! I felt good.

So when I left, I went riding around Leimert and came up on a performance at The Stage; saw some old friends and ate a good healthy meal, courtesy of Kah’s Grill…

And heard some live JAZZ!!!

Saturday, I laid on the beach all day.

Sunday, I laid on the beach and then went to the Drum Circle. I love supporting Black Businesses with the money I get from the Government.

You know I love reading autobiographies by musicians and I picked up TWO. All of the previous autobiographies have been jazz musicians but when I saw a book titled, “Between Each Line Of Pain and Glory,” it just piqued my interest. I knew it was a song, but when I found out it was Glady’s Knight’s autobiography, I had to have it. She is so funny! She reminds me of Miss Manners’ sense of humour. I am really enjoying her book.

I also had to buy ‘Retha’s just on G.P.

I bought some much needed earrings, some supersweet Lemonade courtesy of the Honey Queen and talked to the most inspirational young Black Father with his own clothing line: JUST BE DOPE.

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NOW, THE BULLETS…

• PAN-AFRICAN GLOBAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
• HAMMER KID’S SUMMER PROGRAM
• ARRAY
• So, I read in the Standard that there is an effort being made to rename Rodeo Road to Obama Blvd.
• I found out that L.A. used to have our own “Ink Well”
• https://youtu.be/kYBITnM2pDM
• The “Ink Well” in L.A. was located between Bay & Bicknell Streets, long after 1927 when beach segregation ended. There is a monument which is on my “Bucket List” to visit, memorializing The Ink Well, located at Bay Street and Ocean Front Walk.
• MALIBU CONCERT ON THE BLUFFS
• I keep seeing Fritz. I was talking to him at The Central Avenue Jazz Fest when they called him to go onstage. I thought that was Uber Cool. Groupies talk to musicians AFTER the show. We were talking BEFORE. Only fellow musicians do that. 😉
• https://youtu.be/muMsIEyRu8U
• AND THE SISTER CAPTAIN LOVES LINCOLNS!!!
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