this is these are the top stories at least 40 people have died after multiple blasts in the capital of couple explosions happened near a school in the. western children were leaving at the time of the explosion. has more from the afghan capital. the attack happened there around 5 30 pm kabul time this is the time when students were senator in their classes and were heading home and were talking about hundreds of pending schools of that kind according to eyewitnesses there were 3 explosions that happened back to back of that time again there's according to eyewitnesses and they were talking about girls who were panicking started running around crying calling for their mothers and others were trying to transfer many as they could to hospitals and i have to tell you that was

an uphill battle here in kabul because big parts of the city have been without electricity for the 2nd day palestinian groups are calling for protests after israeli security forces stormed the compound in occupied east jerusalem well than 200 palestinian worshippers were injured thousands of muslims had gathered there for the last friday prayers of ramadan. several states in india are going into lockdown as officials try to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control india is the 3rd country after the united states in brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths a day more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine has arrived in pakistan country opposed to nationwide. it is an attempt to stop cases spreading during the holiday. european union leaders in the us to lift restrictions on covert 19 vaccine exports

the global vaccine shortage was one of the made items on the agenda during their 1st in person summit of the year you council president shall michelle says the white house proposal to suspend patients on vaccines would not be a magic bullet england has unveiled a green list of 12 countries where residents can visit without going into quarantine when they return you rules come into effect to make the 17th it will mean international travel will no longer be illegal australia and new zealand are on the list even though they've both closed their borders to terrorists the european union plans to allow tourism from countries with learned french rates by mid june. of ethiopia's orthodox church to use government forces of carrying out genocide integrate province since november fighting between the central government and the 2 great people liberation front is believed to have killed thousands just a headline small news coming up here analogies are right after this break. cultivating food is the foundation of human civilization but food today is

a global commodity if the industry did not make money how many people would be and how it's cultivated a contentious debate public interest in the public safety is definitely not taking precedent and in-depth examination into our great business and the conflicting interests at play industry doesn't want any regulation interest would put their products on the market the price of progress on al-jazeera. today we revisit the music of indigenous artists who've played our right here on the stream stage so stand by for my moon uses also known as mimi fresh to hear how she tell operates with other indigenous artists to create a powerful mix of music and activism also on a playlist front war on the native american hip hop artist raps in the language we

start with a grammy nominated colombian canadian singer and songwriter leader. peter is going to be joining us in just a moment but 1st she is performing on the stream back in 2018. performing i go on the stream 3. welcome back.

i mean it's been a lot. a lot has happened a lot has happened we were performing at the grammy. album has been recognized worldwide i miss colombia. i was beautiful i was able to you know bring to the world the baby that was inside of me when i was there for me for a year. and now now she takes over my life everything colorful in my studio is for her this is her little modern home that i made out of cardboard so she can help me so you just continue to resist yeah yeah i'm thinking because you we just what you perform which is 3 years ago which is about indigenous rights. respecting mother nature do you see looking back that evolution in your music do you think i've grown i've changed i'm doing something different now i think that i am in

constant motion and in constant evolution and i think that until our struggles and until the things that we're seeing about and in peace and in the right and in the right hands then i'm probably going to start singing about other things you know but i feel like there's an evolution in sound and that my message is only becoming stronger for sure. nomination for best latin rock or tentative album featuring traditional colombian instruments and afro colombian album what does that mean for people in colombia and also i think when canada what do they tell you about that. everyone was extremely supportive and extremely happy. you know i'm not really a person that is reading labels and things like that and i do feel like a lot of right music does come out of my heart but when it's recognized you know

that the sounds come from a specific place or a specific people it gives us more strength you know which is what my music is about so people are very happy very proud in canada are people are in full celebration so. yeah i mean i made sure that i made my message clear i made sure that we performed we created a show in 0 and that's where we gave people so i'm very proud and very happy to have shared a stage with 2 afro indigenous artists happy that we were able to feature all latin american colombian art so yeah we did what we came to do we're looking at some of the pictures from your grammy performance and underneath i was looking at the comments this is literally the most beautiful form of 2 art i've seen in the longest time this is mesmerizing this is art tell us about how you

conceptualize the look of performance what were you trying to do. everything that i do. comes with intention everything that i do everything that i put out i have already thought about it some of the imagery come see me in trimix some of the imagery i collaborate with visual artists that are like minded. this collaboration for the grammys idea with art is orally anon and she is a colombian artist based in mexico city and that we have a beautiful friendship and she also did our direction for the cover of my album so it only made sense that i worked with her again we've done music videos together and i work with an all crew of indigenous black. or ik artists and that's why you can really see one with the reaction is so true

because that's exactly where all of the art came from from memory from. all of our struggles and the love that we have for color nature that's what that song is about and that's what the performance was about. the grammys are expanding how much space they have the latino artist and i remember when you were on the stream 3 years ago you talked about why he's singing in spanish why that's important let me just remind our audience what he said well here 1st i will ask who can speak spanish and then there's like 2 people. and then i like well this is the perfect time to download your reset a stone app or. you know like i don't know that app exists but i do know that there are a set of stone multi-lingual programs that were really hot so i'm like there should be an app for that you should download it because i am not about to translate this i'll contextualize a little bit. it's

a good. but i thought people coming round to your way of thinking because the performance at the grammys the thought you were nominated the reception of miss colombia how do you feel people are now looking at indigenous artists where they may not be performing in english which was if you want to be successful you kind of have to sing in english. yeah i think that the dominating people into music industry the majority are people of color and that a big branch of the mainstream. music industry are you know caribbean descendant. colombia and you know that are making a sort of mix between pop and. caribbean sounds you know what i do still is art and it's not something that is readily. sold

to the masses like some of the pop that's out there but i do feel like because music in spanish has been more aesthetic. and it's really because you know 2nd and 3rd generation people my age and like the youth are listening to the music you know their culture and their country to represent them so i feel like the music industry simply reflecting what the audience wants you know and because it's still an industry and because it's still a business a business they're realizing that they have to make space for other languages and other cultures and which will have ways to go but you know i embrace any kind of change in the right direction nido pinney enter by the stream after a 3 year hiatus over a scoring always fascinating. class yes. yes yes amy.

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to. 'd 'd 'd 'd next on our play lists my mood i use this a k a move fresh when she appears on the stream she shared a story that made my eyes are all. native american and african american but was told by the t.v. show american idol that she wasn't american idol to compete they said i was too ethnic i was too afaik and if they have an ethnic idol they'll be sure to give me a call yeah so. one site even. even me i mean so if you were the values. you know.

'd you have a unique backstory i guarantee no one else has a back story like yours to prove it i'm going to show our audience some pictures that he let's start with this one here have a look at my laptop this is johnny i'm going to show a picture of your grandmother and your mother this is where your musical inspiration the musical education started would you explain because a lot of people we look at these but just say what. tell us. what. i learned was being at home with my mother and my grandmother in the kitchen

a lot of times people were x. my mother was with her vocal coast to train of this thing and they think that she's going to you know sit up at a piano and teach them notes and she'll make them come you know shop corn and pick greens and because traditional people singing is. like reading is like praying it is a part of what you do as as a. a person as a part of the community you know as. social have you come feel the song breathe the song do chores you know it's a part of life a living part of expression when i was a small girl i would always see my mother my grandmother people would call them and they would travel all around. people to take paying out of their bodies to sing into their bodies you know later on you may look at it doctors use the vibration of sounds and move matter inside of bodies and they were doing this with their voices not educated in the western but they knew the power of sound and vibrations so

that's kind of how i started both my parents i mean my parents my grandparents had already converted to islam but my grandmother was a choir director from chicago so you know that we are muslim she was still teach me . spiritual from slavery and she would teach me traditional native songs. that we had to really learn after the freedom of religion act was passed from native americans that was until the seventy's we couldn't practice our culture into the seventy's so you know a lot of the culture that was lost because of indian boarding schools and natives being forced to get we where we had to go back and read learn those things so by the time i was born you know my grandmother was just starting to really learn the language because we couldn't even talk about it you could even talk about being indian people she was mexican you know. and i mean and you know mexicans are indigenous to that's why you see so many similarities from the southern tribes coming in it's an imaginary border you know they're indigenous as well and so

people didn't know she was choctaw so later on she went back to learn the traditional ways and she was able to teach that i mean. she. she. she.

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from the daughter of freedom fighters a. number run. place where you live in indian summer. that just song a song in the lakota language i know that melody is going to be going around in your head o'day since appearing on the stream my mooney uses has continued to blend activism most recently joining other indigenous musicians to make the protest song no more pipeline blues it was released on state support the protests against the construction of minnesota's 9th grade tall science pipeline. i find autistic day is

frank warner who doesn't sing in the lakota language he raps in it genocide the suffering of native americans and their fight to protect that allowed a things that runs through frank's music as through this number my people come from the lot. though. the council fires.

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when frank. wanted to find out how. to change perceptions of. his full. exploding so you sampled a disney song from the animated feature of the 1983 animated movie peter pan and turned it on its head so tell us about that so i produced music that was the 1st time i ever actually sample all vinyl i found a record in children's vinyl sold in minneapolis for a dollar and i've always wanted to do something with that song just because disney has a pretty horrible history of stereotype. in my people and it's there in the music and so i always look for creative ways to foot things like that on their head like and i just want to point out that a song is full of racial slurs for indigenous people but it came off of

a children's record and you know so i just by doing that alone it kind of shows you where we're at in this country as far as how we look at aintree indigenous people you have a line in there where you say what made you think the red man was dead or something paraphrasing a little bit and i know you have a story where that actually happened but what is surprise yes so it was my 1st week in a so i graduated from columbia college in chicago i got my bachelor of arts and audio arts in acoustics and the 1st week i was there i was living in a dorm room in a dorm building in downtown chicago and i got in the elevator and this girl about on the elevator with me and she was non-native she commented on my hair she would get really pretty and i was like you know thank you and she didn't know what that meant and so i had to be more general and i was like i'm native american and she looked at me confused and she was like you guys are still alive you know and just think about that we got college educated adults living on stolen call and i was glad to think we don't even exist.

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trying to. explain. this. you know i think at its core hip hop was created by colonize people who were stolen

away from their homeland stolen away from their culture and trying to recreate something that was taken from them so i think hip hop at its core is coming from indigenous roots you know african force we're indigenous people as well we all are calling nice people so i think that's why as an indigenous person i resonate with it because it was created by colonize people and it's strong from indigenous traditions. and that's it for. now cha cha cha. cha cha cha. cha. cha. cha cha cha. cha one.

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