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Latoya Raveneau.  “It is an honor to work with the Disney Junior team to help create a series of shorts that will empower and uplift the future generations in the way we know best, through music,” Questlove and Black Thought said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We hope these shorts will encourage the young audience to recognize and celebrate our differences as human beings while learning the tools to navigate real-world issues of racial injustice,” they added.  In 2017, the group created an animated short for an episode of the ABC show The series, Disney Junior exec Joe ...

Disney Teams with The Roots for Animated Series Teaching Toddlers About Racism and Social Justice 18 May 2021 Members of the Grammy-winning rap group The Roots are teaming up with Disney Junior for several animated short films aimed at teaching kids aged 2 to 7 about race, racism, and social justice issues. The project, entitled Rise Up, Sing Out, is set to be executive produced by The Roots members Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter. “We hope these shorts will encourage the young audience to recognize and celebrate our differences as human beings while le...

Disney Junior connects with The Roots to teach kids about racism Black Thought (Photo by Eddy “Precise” Lamarre for rolling out) Racism is a topic that can’t be ignored today and Disney is making an effort to educate its young viewers with an upcoming animated shorts series called “Rise Up, Sing Out.” The show is designed for children ages 2-7-years-old and their families. It will include music by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots. The Roots frontmen, along with Latoya Raveneau, are executive producers of “Rise Up, Sing Out�...

Released in 1965, this early record from the Folk-Legacy label features Bill Meek, a musician and composer born in the town of Killinchy, Northern Ireland. Recorded by label founder Sandy Paton while Meek briefly lived in Vermont, the album is a mix of traditional Irish songs and his own compositions. Though a varied selection, the thematic thread running through the album is social and political, with songs that range from the 1798 United Irishman rebellion up to contemporary issues facing Irish migrant workers in the United Kingdom. One of Meek’s originals, “The Complaint of the Bard,�...

A look inside 19-year-old Bob Dylan's Connecticut performance that history forgot FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Stephen H. Fenerjian, 87, shows off two of the photographs he took of Bob Dylan at the 1961 Indian Neck Folk Festival in Branford when Fenerjian was 27. The photo of Fenerjian was taken by his son, Stephen M. Fenerjian, also known as Stephen Fenerjian Jr.Stephen M. Fenerjian / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Bob Dylan, second from right, mingling in the crowd at the 1961 Indian Neck Folk Festival in Branford. The photo was taken by Stephen H. Fenerjian, then a 27-year-old photo...