Billie Holiday at the Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York City, February 1947. Image via William P. Gottlieb / Wikimedia Commons Tapping into African American wisdom through song By Kamilah Majied, PhD  “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”—Toni Morrison, “No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear” The twenty-fourth chapter of the Lotus Sutra is known as the Wonderful Sounds chapter. It is there that Shakyamuni Buddha introduces Bodhisattva … Continue reading Facing the Music of Our Times with Metta