“A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America” is considered to be the 1
“A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America” is considered to be the 1st album of Asian American music ever produced. The album was recorded in 1973 by activists Chris Kando Iijima, Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto, and William “Charlie” Chin. Their songs encouraged political resistance to racial oppression and claimed a cultural legacy as Asian Americans. A Grain of Sand was inspired Chris, Nobuko and Charlie’s work within the Asian American Movement as well Black and Puerto Rican liberation movements in NYC. Political prisoner, Mutulu Shakur, can even be heard performing on the album. Learn more about A Grain of Sand, the lives of Chris, Nobuko, and Charlie, and their impacts on radical history here. -- source link
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