Wanda's Picks

Today is the birthday of John Coltrane. Born John William "Trane" Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. We'll be featuring music composed and performed by Coltrane, his late wife Alice Coltrane and son, Ravi Coltrane from Alice Coltrane's "Translinear Light" and John Coltrane's "Ballads" with the JC Quartet and perhaps a selection from his last live recording at the Olatunji Cultural Center April 1967. Also today we look at the life of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, whose birthday, Monday, Sept. 21, would have been his 100th. He was the first president of a free African nation, who dedicated his life to his people--a Pan African nation. That his noble life was concluded in exile, reminds me of that of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and for that matter Richard Wright. His was a vision of a United States of Africa. We'll play excerpts of his speech to the UN Sept. 23, 1960 and I'll share an introduction to the UN address, written by his good friend, W.E.B. Dubois w