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Shoga Treats

Every month for every newsletter we create a video, either from scratch or sampled from various sources, on our monthly theme. It can be "Homo For the Holidays" at Christmas or a multimedia meditation on Richard Bruce Nugent's "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" or a stop on the Queer Harlem Renaissance Walking Tour or anything at all ... anything that strikes our fancy. The focus may be narrow, but the ambition is large, and every Treat can be a revelation. “To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour."

Video Gallery

Marion Michelle on "Indonesia Calling"

Gaye Sings Gay

Albertson on the Queer Harlem Renaissance 

The Rosewood Massacre 1923

A Smoky Mashup

The Modern Narcissists

Marcus Shelby Quartet Performs Body and Soul 

Can Classical Music Be Black? Part 1

Can Classical Music Be Black? Part 2

Congo Cabaret with Weird Subtitles

Centenary - The Dyer Anti Lynching Bill 

The First Black Best Seller Was Queer

The Queer Harlem Renaissance

Jews In Blackface

A Torch Song Mashup

The Queerness of Home to Harlem

The Real Ma Rainey

Shuffle Along for Better or Worse

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