Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said

[@Auntkekebaby]

Grateful for Rhiannon. She's been educating for years.

[@LaurieCoco-t8z]

BLESS HER HEART AND BLESS YOURS TOO !

[@Auntkekebaby]

@user-cs8zc6gf6t You too. Music history and legacy is very important to me. One of my life forces. Her work is part of American history.

[@petitben5240]

​@@LaurieCoco-t8zand may God bless your stupidity!

[@magdyhammad4158]

Wonderful opera singer about remarkable Omar ibn Said. Thank you Democracy Now.

[@shahtoushshahtoush6932]

Thanks to Democracy Now for bringing to light a creative genius like Rhinnan Giddens.

[@AhmadJMatar]

Beautiful and inspiring stories. May Allah bestow his mercy upon Omar ibn Said. رحم الله عمر بن سعيد وغفر له وأدخله الجنة

[@danielkrohn4980]

I was sort of surprised to hear her talking about "complicating" American history. I'm very proud of my southern culture, and I guess I'm young enough that people like Ms. Giddens and Omar were always part of that for me. I'm grateful that so many have fought for a seat at the table and infinitely enriched our culture as a result.

[@gdionwood]

Sadly if you don't keep up the fight there are evil forces at play that want to take it away from you.

[@tanyalake9152]

🙄.

[@francinecamerini357]

So beautiful and heartbreaking 💔 thank you

[@abaneyone]

I've followed Rhiannon Giddens' music from the beginning. So nice to see her talent being acknowledged.

[@JoBlogz]

may Allah bless you two queens, and bless this king, and all good people who suffered then, and continue to suffer now

[@zaynab9799]

Aameen ❤

[@hajeevibes]

So many "wasted lives" when slavery is enacted. So glad I chose this more difficult avatar and cultural group this lifetime. Africans and African-Americans are absolutely phenomenal, creative and resilient People. I hope to experience this country when Jim Crow 2.0 is over and ALL people feel free, tolerated and even LOVED enough to aspire to greatness and bring up the whole. We are ONE. BLESSINGS! 🙌🏾🙏🏾🌏💚💎

[@SteveL2012]

She is extraordinary in her musical breadth (and many other ways)!

[@dvoravithanovsky6902]

What a wonderful interview and interviewed. I cannot wait to see a live performance of Omar

[@idrisnewton4552]

Thank You democracy Now. Thank You Amy Goodman, you are a beacon.

[@shahtoushshahtoush6932]

Rhiannon Giddens is a creative genius.Her podcast of famous arias is outstanding.We wish her more creative success.

[@Arisaem]

I recognize her from Occupy when she was with her old band. Another amazing roots musician to check out (whom has played with Rhiannon) - Leyla McCalla.

[@gdionwood]

I have goosebumps and watery eyes from this interview! One of my favourite artist of all time interviewed brilliantly by my favourite journalist. Rhiannon as of yet, hasn't received the commercial success she very much deserves.

[@pacofgarcia5998]

Maybe it is coming...

[@emiliobello2538]

Hope we get a movie version of this story

[@brunoantony9257]

can we get a movie version about all the white Europeans that were taken to slavery in Africa over the centuries?

[@kahlilboi]

​​@@brunoantony9257 you mean north Africa by white Arabs and white berbers right 😂 you do know Arabs and Berbers are classified as white right? U.S. census white - any of the original inhabitants of Europe North Africa and the Middle East! Dow vs. the United States classified syrians and Lebanese as white!😂 What does white slaves in Africa have to do with America? There were thousands of black slaves in Europe as well, like Jonathan strong, James somerset, Joseph knight, Scipio Kennedy etc etc

[@MsAppassionata]

@@brunoantony9257 🙄🙄🙄 Some of y’all just cannot stand for anyone else to be the center of attention, can you? Pitiful. 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@ReyMy-dx3ku]

Arabs are very dark from skin. Did you ever see the workers. Yes the rich ones are light skinned because they don't work in the sun. Now on the point of Berbers, sit you know Berbers come from very dark skin to white. Don't be a black racist please. Accept every colour. Many Berbers lives for ever in the mountains and never left their ancestors are there for 1000 s of year and are poor farmers

[@ThatSuzanneSchmid]

​@@brunoantony9257why do you behave this way? Create your own video about this "topic." Stop behaving with such pathetic jealousy and fear.

[@salwa8141]

Alhamdulilah

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Absolutely love everything about this. ❤❤❤

[@GrettleFingal-cb1ep]

Great contribution.

[@lavendereucalyptus3225]

I’m a BIG FAN of her and Carolina Chocolate, thank you for inviting her on, how pleasant and lovely! ❤️

[@MoonMoon-pe4dy]

Good job Rihannon.

[@misterjahi]

She's a jewel of culture.

[@GrowthnGod]

Am amazing show!!!! Everything about it - top notch!!

[@seedsowlife]

Thank you!

[@MerlinSingh]

"the way they looked at the world wasnt the same, but the way that they looked at eachother, there was the flame" Giddens. So very emotive. What a talent

[@ShivaniGrail]

Powerful message ❤

[@Muhdah1972]

Congratulations to Rhiannon and thank you to her for bringing us Omar's story.

[@bgochicoa]

I could say more but I'll leave it at... wow!

[@Walker-ld3dn]

Wow; what an interesting, intelligent person. Bravo to her, her priorities, and her music.

[@helenhunter4540]

Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by Herself".

[@oghyeahoo6165]

This is why Critical Race Thoery is so important & likeky the reason it's being banned in certain states.

[@CarlJohnson-uk4fe]

If white people hate American history are they Americans ?

[@levmoses742]

Thank you! I can’t wait to see the opera!

[@cocoaorange1]

I wish her the best about the play, I have listened to some of the Carolina Chocolate Drops CD's.

[@harbinger6562]

Congratulations Rhiannon ❤️🇺🇲🇵🇸🦾😇🌹

[@pascalpoussin1209]

This is fantastic, Omar was in some ways, probably a scholar in islamic studies, an intellectual and a testimony to the US history.

[@bazs2855]

Wow most of these comments have nothing to do with the content of this video. Examining untold histories need to be told so that we better know who we are and we’re we are going. There is a documentary about Omar somewhere. I think I saw it on PBS. Or I could be mistaken. These stories need to be told. ❤

[@tanyalake9152]

"With an *educational system* that *purposely misinforms* and *indoctrinates young people* to *respond* as *Skinnerian rats* to a *positive reinforcement schedule* of *operant conditioning, children* as *future adults* are *being shaped* and *programmed* to *become little robots easily controlled* by *their oligarch masters."* - *ARTICLE* - *"The Dumbing Down of America - By Design".*

[@HollyHurd-x6o]

She's so amazing.

[@utube0786]

awesome story/information - thankyou!

[@themanwnoname3454]

free and fair elections freedom of speech & expression equal access to education rule of law freedom of peaceful assembly

[@picassofriend3289]

Wholesome segment

[@cheolacarnitas2682]

Real life Book of Eli!!!! Denzel and Omar and Rhi are perfect examples of the POC archetype. Smart, wise, proud, ingenious, well spoken, fiery, fervid! So proud she's a "cousin". ❤😂

[@TIMMYSIPRANO]

She sang he faced the rising sun ? NO he faced Mecca 5 times a day praising The Creator. If you're going to sing the song and tell the story of this amazing story of this Man: Don't make cheesy lyrics and songs that don't reflect what makes his story as a Muslim scholar who was sold into slavery and brought to America.

[@lesterksi4521]

May God blessed Omar. Thanks Rhiannon!

[@jaiyabyrd4177]

"Carolina Chocolate Drops" Great Name 😄😄

[@Auntkekebaby]

Great group

[@MsAppassionata]

Our Native Daughters is another great band she was involved with.

[@johnfraser8116]

Each person who died in the US's unnecessary wars for the past 75 years was a wasted life.

[@atomictraveller]

talk about west papua. please

[@SuperStrik9]

Music is universal and is one of, if not the greatest forms of human expression.

[@grinbear9331]

Great to know Thank you all

[@elaine5953]

interesting and thank you. But since a child in a border state in the 60;s we clearly knew that that the Banjo is based on an ancient instrument with African origins. This is what our teachers (Nuns) taught us. And they taught us to play the banjo too. We were a mixed class of girls from all back grounds and race in what was still a rural area. Maybe that was unusual then? Why was this lost??

[@imana4838]

WOAH!

[@ITALJUTE]

Is it just me, or did anybody else realize what beautiful hands she has? It's funny because I never thought of hands as being a thing in the realm of beauty before.

[@themanwnoname3454]

“If we give up on the moral code our country believes in we’re no better than (who we are fighting).” - US Military Code “Been that way for 30 years.” - U.S. Justice Department on the lack of Human Rights in Oklahoma County Jail, 2020 P.S. You get 2 days for every 1 you serve there bc it is so bad. “Makes me feel human again after this place.” - Oklahoma City Art Museum review after life in the local shelters (20+ years in the making), 2024 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂 I got human beings I love. Lying to them was never my thing. There is no God. Thanks to an old friend I remember the first lie I ever told :) - Me aka Ron Swanson 2.0/Ron Swanson on Snoop Dogg/a nerd

[@Funsizeskatezgir123]

Amazing

[@ZeroRespectForMagaZero]

Dictators dont have vice dictators. Is that why VonShitzenpants is delaying picking a VP?

[@robertrichard6107]

You mean Ronald McTrump?

[@tanyalake9152]

"This presentation *focuses on* the *myriad ways* in which the *powers-that-be* in the *United States have been systematically dumbing down Americans* as *a society for* a *very long time* - *all by meticulously calculated design."* - *ARTICLE* - *"The Dumbing Down of America - By Design".*

[@SunnyIlha]

Educator ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@caterinabyrne380]

and they go home w pack shoulders and Some don't have food STILLL!!! 💥💥💥

[@TheCasheba]

The Banjo is an African instrument

[@mothersoul1]

It was Fayetteville North carolina

[@Nanii_i34i]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 0:30

[@pamacell1102]

Beacuse the people on Mayflower was white and the Master who stole the lands from the Native while Black was brought in as Slaves, that is why the story or his story of Mayflower is relevant to the his story of the black.

[@LimeyRedneck]

🤠💜

[@ZeroRespectForMagaZero]

January 6th: 4 seditionists and 5 police officers died. 1,265 Trump supporters have been charged. 213 have pleaded guilty to felonies. Another 505 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors.

[@TimothyJonSarris]

Sounds more like a musical instead of an opera. Molto bello comunque 👍👍👍🎵🎵🎶🎶♥️

[@organboi]

This isn't an opera. It's a musical. Ridiculous to call it an opera.

[@abdullahessa7854]

Slander piece nodout

[@mdsoulsounds]

Congratulations to Rhiannon for all her works. However, not sure how it connects to the African American community, as it’s more appealing to a non African American audience.

[@ZeroRespectForMagaZero]

I'm voting for the guy that has grown our economy, invested in our infrastructure, fights for our rights & supports democracy. President Joe Biden.

[@tanyalake9152]

"This presentation *focuses on* the *myriad ways* in which the *powers-that-be* in the *United States have been systematically dumbing down Americans* as *a society for* a *very long time* - *all by meticulously calculated design."* - *ARTICLE* - *"The Dumbing Down of America - By Design".*

[@caterinabyrne380]

...great another movie!!! A few tears and then what??? Same garbage..no???? 💥💥💥

[@donaldharlan3981]

Photoshop, lies

[@PauloAdriano-zo2ng]

Please take your meds at a preset time each & every day. Over time, you'd be pleasantly surprised at the positive results. 😊

[@Collageartist69]

What is wrong with you people? Why don't you educate yourselves? Why do facts and history create such hate in you? I hope you don't have children.

[@yourturn777]

BOT!

[@stogies3]

Beyonce black? lol

[@user-vw6bk4pb4l]

Whats funny?

[@revolvertaco7493]

TRUMP 2024!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Collageartist69]

He is a convicted felon and an abuser. He is an immortal, uncouth,unethical lowlife.

[@TwisterTornado]

HE AND EPS. SHE WAS 13. 1994. SHE FILED AGAINST HIM, 4 TIMES. BEFORE HE RAN. EASY TO FIND.

[@revolvertaco7493]

@@TwisterTornado Trump 2024!!!!

[@tanyalake9152]

"This presentation *focuses on* the *myriad ways* in which the *powers-that-be* in the *United States have been systematically dumbing down Americans* as *a society for* a *very long time* - *all by meticulously calculated design."* - *ARTICLE* - *"The Dumbing Down of America - By Design".*

[@tanyalake9152]

"But this *dismal outcome* has *long been* in *the making* on *many fronts.* Over numerous decades a grand experiment engaging in social engineering with America’s youth has been steadily working to homogenize a lowest common denominator product of sub par mediocrity, creating generations of young Americans who can neither read nor write, nor think for themselves in any critical manner. According to a study last year by the US Department of Education, 19% of US high school graduates cannot read, 21% of adults read below 5th grade level and that these alarming rates have not changed in the last ten years." - *ARTICLE* - *"The Dumbing Down of America - By Design".*

[@jameslewis1605]

Well it sucked to be Omar but hey thats life. Rhiannon sounds like she needs some antidepressants

[@willieperson9751]

Amy Goodman, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️🖤💚

[@Bibbzyy]

I love Rhiannon!!!!

[@cheolacarnitas2682]

Real life Book of Eli!!!! Denzel and Omar and Rhi are perfect examples of the POC archetype. Smart, wise, proud, ingenious, well spoken, fiery, fervid! So proud she's a "cousin". ❤😂

[@bsahmed1]

American values of full display.

[@clauderoxboroughiii4444]

Rhiannon is the United States - native American, euro American and African American.

[@KatieMukhayer]

Snap I never knew the banjo was an African American instrument. I have also associated the banjo with southern white culture.Once you know it’s obvious and It even sounds similar to traditional African guitars .Thank you for bringing us the real story .

[@LaurieCoco-t8z]

SO HAPPY FOR RHIANNON THANKYOU FOR COVERING HER ! SHE IS SPOT ON AMAZING!!!!!

[@heidi9547]

Magnificent Music!

[@BeTheLight-vt8td]

Bless you! Keep being the light!!!🇨🇦

[@The.Adept.Chamber]

☀️🌙⭐

[@tesshudson2967]

Thi

[@JohnBurman-l2l]

This was astounding....yawn.