The Combine explores ideas of America as a banana republic, our baseline for humanity, and transforming our value system. Also, is Bad Bunny in your top 5 or nah?

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Episode 2 Combine Cast Members: Yessica Urraca, Divensely Charles, Tony Windley, Valentino Ellis, Keith White, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

Reading list:

1. How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev 

2. The invention of the white race by Theodore Allen

Music

1. BREATHE.birth by Pink Siifu

2. FREE CAR NIGGAZ by ANKHLEJOHN

3. LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii by Bad Bunny

4. Fear Not For Man by Fela Kuti

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BLACK ART

By Amiri Baraka

Poems are bullshit unless they are

teeth or trees or lemons piled

on a step. Or black ladies dying

of men leaving nickel hearts

beating them down. Fuck poems

and they are useful, wd they shoot

come at you, love what you are,

breathe like wrestlers, or shudder

strangely after pissing. We want live

words of the hip world live flesh &

coursing blood. Hearts Brains

Souls splintering fire. We want poems

like fists beating niggers out of Jocks

or dagger poems in the slimy bellies

of the owner-jews. Black poems to

smear on girdlemamma mulatto bitches

whose brains are red jelly stuck

between 'lizabeth taylor's toes. Stinking

Whores! we want "poems that kill."

Assassin poems, Poems that shoot

guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys

and take their weapons leaving them dead

with tongues pulled out and sent to Ireland. Knockoff

poems for dope selling wops or slick halfwhite

politicians Airplane poems, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .tuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuhtuh

. . .rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . . Setting fire and death to

whities ass.

Look at the Liberal

Spokesman for the jews clutch his throat

& puke himself into eternity . . . rrrrrrrr

There's a negroleader pinned to

a bar stool in Sardi's eyeballs melting

in hot flame Another negroleader

on the steps of the white house one

kneeling between the sheriff's thighs

negotiating coolly for his people.

Aggh . . . stumbles across the room . . .

Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked

to the world! Another bad poem cracking

steel knuckles in a jewlady's mouth

Poem scream poison gas on beasts in green berets

Clean out the world for virtue and love,

Let there be no love poems written

until love can exist freely and

cleanly. Let Black people understand

that they are the lovers and the sons

of warriors and sons

of warriors Are poems & poets &

all the loveliness here in the world

We want a black poem. And a

Black World.

Let the world be a Black Poem

And Let All Black People Speak This Poem

Silently

or LOUD

Your Brooklyn Combine family returns for a 5th season of the Combine Podcast with new and familiar voices to explore topics that impact our local and global communities. Join us as we explore value systems and ways we can get active.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Episode 1 Combine Cast Members: Kenji Summers, Keith White, Valentino Ellis, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

Reading list:

1. Ontological Terror by Calvin Warren

2. New dimensions in African History by Dr Ben-Yochannan

3. The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams

4. Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by Sekou Odinga

Music:


1. You Send Me by Roy Ayers

2. No Stranger To Love / Want You by Roy Ayers

3. Africa Centre of the World by Fela Kuti (feat. Roy Ayers)

4. Running Away by Roy Ayers

5. I Am Your Mind (Part 2) by Roy Ayers

6. Gotta Find A Lover by Roy Ayers

We Are the American Heartbreak: Langston Hughes on the African American experience by BklynCombine

We are back with our 5th season of reasoning, storytelling, critical thinking, in-depth analysis, and all-around op-eding on the things that affect the Brooklyn Community and beyond. In our first episode, we discuss American violence, music, and our very first fundraiser on Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Major R. Owens Health & Wellness Community Center.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Learn more about our Fundraising Fete: http://bklyncombine.com/fete

Combine Approved Africa Travel groups:

1. Cape Verde - Avontade Tours https://avontade-tours.com/

2. Kenya/Tanzania/South Africa - Away to Africa https://www.awaytoafrica.com/

Music:

1. Fly Metaphysics by Rahiem Supreme (The Pretty Prada Papi EP)

2. Roaches Don't Fly by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist

3. Evil Eye by MIKE

4. Eye to Eye by Lute ft. Cozz

NYE 2022 by BklynCombine

This week we get the lowdown on life as a digital nomad. World travel from a man in his late 20s can be interesting, especially considering dating, food culture, local customs, and getting around to name a few. Join us as Jazz shares his tales from abroad.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Music:

1. The Less I Know the Better by Tame Impala

2. Back It Up by Nameless and Wahu

3. Mau Mau by Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire ft. Maffew Ragazino

4. Rich Flex by Drake & 21 Savage

The Bklyn Combine ends our East Africa series with part 2 of our discussion with the charismatic, Mr. Lee, an 82 year old, legend in Lamu, Kenya. This Harlem expat has lived life fully and we are honored to have him as our guest. Join us as he shares stories and life advice.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Music:

1. Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Robert Glasper, feat. Lalah Hathaway

2. Try A Little Tenderness by Otis Redding

3. F by Raheim Supreme

This week The Bklyn Combine continues with the final installment in our East Africa series. Meet Mr. Lee, a legend in his own right and a humble, yet larger-than-life figure. This Harlem expat has lived life fully and we are honored to have him as our guest. Join us as he shares stories and life advice while occassionally breaking out in song. We couldn't get enough of Brother Lee's life stories and the live serenades were the best!

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

1. I Apologise by Billy Eckstine

2. Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue) by Nat King Cole

3. Four [The First Recording] by Miles Davis

Are you a music lover? So is your family at the Bklyn Combine, and this week we build with two of our favorite DJ's/music men. We call them "music men" because they are both multi-faceted and music aficionados in their own right. This week we went into the crates with Asen James of FON Soundsystem and Dave Andrew of Ode To Vinyl (OTV). They spoke to Ken about their preference for vinyl and they shared insight about everything from Jazz to Hip Hop and what made them love the art form.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

http://www.fonsoundsystem.com

http://www.instagram.com/aaliance

http://www.instagram.com/odetovinyl

http://www.instagram.com/ask4dave

Music:

1. The Creator Has A Master Plan by Pharaoh Sanders

2. Re Fingered With Love by Ge-ology

3. Keys by Elijah feat. D.A.P.

4. Sounds From The Combine by Dapshido

Continuing with last week's theme, The Bklyn Combine brings you an intimate conversation with a young Maasai man who became our first honorary Tanzanian Combine member. Phill and Chaba sat down with Leepa "Simon" Lenguka and they chatted on a ferry ride from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar. And what better way to pass the time than to chat with a new friend?

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

www.lengukastravel.com

Maasi Self-Instruction Manual

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Music:

1. Maasai Music, Embrukoi

2. Yope Remix by Innoss'B feat. Diamond Platnumz

3. Traditional Maasai music

4. Rhythmic Maasai Deep Humming