Everything Must Change

Hold on...

‘The Annunciation of a Woman’ by Harmonia Rosales

It’s been a wild couple of days, wild couple of weeks… wild in the way centuries contract & condense, and quotidian acts of deadly violence loop & repeat across multiple generations, landing in the here and now like it’s all brand spanking new: lynchings, land theft, myriad forms of displacement, state violence, and the shit that happened at BAFTA. It’s all just the weather.

I was tweaking today’s lesson plans before heading off to school, checking my socials, scarfing down breakfast, when I stumbled over this clip that stopped me in my tracks. It’s a cover of one of my all-time favorite songs – a steady incantation of reassurance rooted in Black American spirituality. This song conveys the heaviness of life, the “it’s been too hard living” Sam Cooke sang about, and the “I know, I know, I know a change is gonna come” he promised in that same song. The Oleta Adams and Randy Crawford versions of this staple have long been my favorites, and now this take on it by Lachuné (which dropped a few weeks ago) sits right alongside them. Chills…

Here she is doing another fantastic cover:

Peace