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The AIDS Quilt Songbook is an ongoing collaborative song-cycle with subsequent additions responding to the stigma surrounding, ignorance of, and grief caused by the spread of HIV/AIDS, serving as a companion work to the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. While its original printed edition consists of 18 songs with texts and music by American ...
The book also features a poem entitled "The Spirit of Nkosi Johnson." [10] A song titled "Do All You Can" subtitled Nkosi's song was recorded by the spiritual musical group Devotion. Nkosi's words are the inspiration of the song "We Are All the Same" written by NALEDi in June 2001. This song was recorded and released on her 2003 album In The Rain.
World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, [1] is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.
World AIDS Day: Efforts commemorate past, work toward future. Much has changed in the years since Belle Glade hospital board member Sandra Chamblee went on to lead the Glades Health Initiative ...
Dlugos is widely known for the poems he wrote while hospitalized in G-9, the AIDS ward at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, and is considered a seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic. His long poem "G-9," in which Dlugos celebrates life while accepting his mortality and impending death, was published in The Paris Review only months before Dlugos died.
He is the author of Party of Black (2006), A Day of Presence (2008), Bottle of Life (2010), Speak Water (2012), winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, [1] and My TV is Not the Boss of Me (2013), Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award Finalist 2014, [2] a children's book, illustrated by Cory Thomas.
It's been three decades since Pedro Zamora appeared on MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco, but his impact feels as immediate as ever.. The gay Cuban-American became a pioneer when he openly ...
Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS is a global Campaign launched by UNICEF in 2005 to raise awareness of the plight of children globally in relation to HIV and AIDS, and to spur action. Almost every minute of every day, a child dies because of AIDS, and another two young people are infected with HIV. [ 1 ]