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For 40 years now, Sweet Honey in the Rock has created music deep in the tradition of the African-American community. When the women joined us in our studios in 2005, they outlined the group's message: Keep moving forward, and make a way for those who are coming behind you.
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: (Singing) I don't know how my mother walked her trouble down. I don't know how my father stood his ground. I don't know how my people survived slavery. I do remember. That's why I believe.
CONAN: "I Remember, I Believe," written by founding member Bernice Johnson Reagon, who retired from the group in 2004, and now another retirement. After almost 35 years with Sweet Honey, long-time member Ysaye Barnwell announced plans to step aside. You'll recognize her voice as the one that occupies the bottom register of the harmonies. She joins us in a moment.
We want to hear from those of you who've worked decades to help build a company, a group, team or an institution. How did you know it was time to go? 800-989-8255. Email us:firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. Ysaye Barnwell is back home from her final international tour with Sweet Honey in the Rock, and joins us here in Studio 42. Nice to have you in the new building.
YSAYE BARNWELL: Thank you so much.
CONAN: And let me ask you that question: How did you know it was time?
BARNWELL: I had a birthday last year, and realized that I had been in Sweet Honey for exactly half of my life. And something hit me, because there are a number of things I've been involved in at the same time that I've been involved in Sweet Honey in the Rock, and I realized that I was beginning to struggle with how to do everything. And I felt like I really had been trying to nurture and grow some other projects and things, and then I wanted to spend maybe the next third of my life actually seeing them come to fruition, and felt that perhaps now was the time. So I announced it to the group last July, and at the end of May, that will be my leaving day.
CONAN: And I'm sure since then, you've had time to wonder, you know, maybe I - this project I could've kept going. Maybe the group, I should've stayed in and cut back on some other things.
BARNWELL: You know, earlier in my life, at the - in fact, at the time that I came into Sweet Honey, I went through one of those door - closing-door-opening experiences. And because I didn't realize that was what was happening, I was emotionally devastated for about five years. And for me right now, it was very, very clear that this door with Sweet Honey was closing for me, and that other things were opening, and I didn't want to have another five years of devastation.
BARNWELL: So I really thought that I needed to pay attention to all of the things that I was thinking and feeling.
CONAN: So it must've been bittersweet to go on this tour?
BARNWELL: It was. It was. And it was a different kind of tour, because we moved so fast that we didn't really have time to appreciate the places that we were in. And so it really felt like a full agenda, but sad because we didn't get to see people we had met before, et cetera. Yeah.
CONAN: And do you have full confidence that the institution you did so much to build and support over the years is going to thrive without you?
BARNWELL: I trust God. I really do. And I believe that the women in the group want the group to go on. We wanted it to go on when Bernice left and people had fears and doubts, and I think the same thing will happen now. But I think that the group has a legacy. The group has strength. The group has foresight. And I believe that it will figure out how to move forward.
CONAN: Was your decision easier because of Bernice Reagon's example?
BARNWELL: No, I don't think it had anything to do with her example. I think I just knew for myself that that was what I needed to do.
CONAN: And there's still a little time left. Where are you going to be performing?
BARNWELL: My last concert that I'm aware of is May 11 at - in Malibu at Pepperdine.
CONAN: Oh, that's a nice place to say goodbye.
BARNWELL: It's a lovely place, yeah.
CONAN: Malibu.
BARNWELL: So I'm really looking forward to it. There is kind of a situation where there's a conference going on. And so they've held some tickets for the conference participants and other people are being told it's sold out, but I hope that they will work that out.
CONAN: We want to hear from those of you in our audience who have helped to build institutions and teams and companies and - how do you do it with time to go? 800-989-8255. Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com. And we're going to start with Laurel. And Laurel is on the line with us from Pensacola.
And we're still having problems with our phone system, which is dropping calls as soon as we pick them up on the air. So, Laurel, if you could do us the favor, try to call back. We'll see if we can get it fixed. Or zap us an email: email@example.com. And Ysaye Barnwell, remind us, 35 years ago, how did you get together with Sweet Honey in the Rock?
BARNWELL: I was in a totally different profession, but I was conducting a choir at All Soul's Church Unitarian here. I was also studying sign language interpreting and was interpreting the service that Sunday and sang a solo in church for the very first time in my life. And Bernice Johnson Reagon happened to have gotten up that morning and decided instantly to come to that service. And afterwards she came to me and she said, I'm with Sweet Honey in the Rock. We're looking for a new member. Auditions start tomorrow. Will you come?
CONAN: Hmm.
CONAN: That's a pretty direct approach.
BARNWELL: Pretty direct. And I thought, well, you know, what can I lose? So I did.
CONAN: And was it an immediate acceptance?
BARNWELL: Well, it was a four - it was a month-long audition.
BARNWELL: And I learned about 40 songs, all the parts. I had the best time I've ever had in my life. And after that the group invited me to join.
CONAN: And that experience of singing - it's hard to explain. It's a little like being in a string quartet all those years the way voices blend over time, the way you play with each other.
BARNWELL: Mm-hmm. And I actually had played in string quartets. Violin is my first instrument. And so this was really very much like that. And I liked the openness and the fluidness of the group and the fact that every note didn't have to be the same every time, that you had some room to move and to react to what had been sung a second ago to create where you wanted to go.
CONAN: And to play with time. Nobody ever plays the same piece of music at the same speed ever twice in a row.
BARNWELL: That's right. And with Sweet Honey, we don't even play in the same key because we don't have a pitch pipe. Someone just starts the song and then the rest of us join in.
CONAN: Have to adjust.
CONAN: Let's see if we'd get Laurel back on the line. I think she's with us from Pensacola. Laurel, I apologize for our problems. Laurel, are you there? Laurel? Laurel, are you there? We're trying to be a little patient with Laurel because we're having these technical problems. Could you turn your radio down please, Laurel? Laurel, turn your radio down.
LAUREL: I thought so but...
CONAN: Yes, Laurel, if you'd just speak with us and turn your radio down, you'll be fine.
LAUREL: I'm here. Can you hear me?
CONAN: OK. You're on the air. Yes, you're on the air. Go ahead.
LAUREL: Well, I didn't have anything more to say. I don't know where it cut off, but anyone that's been - especially if you started something, it is tough and difficult to leave it, and so I think that - don't wait for, how should I say, you know, a defining moment. But for me it was sort of that. I didn't want to see another year, and so I stopped. But as I said previously, I'm glad that I did not stop beforehand but I'm glad that when I stopped, I stopped.
CONAN: What business were you in? What kind of venture?
LAUREL: I was in an educational program that I established. And it's still flourishing. And I like to think that it's flourishing because it was started with such a strong base.
CONAN: With your strong base.
LAUREL: There are those who have said that. I certainly didn't do it by myself.
CONAN: Few of us do. But nevertheless, some people make important contributions. And do you revisit your program, go back and see what they're doing?
LAUREL: Well, I hear from them, and I am participating in, you know, one of the honor societies there. And so I do still have my hand in, but I'm not working in the nuts and bolts of it anymore.
CONAN: That raises a question, Ysaye Barnwell. Are there emerita members of Sweet Honey in the Rock? Will you be coming back?
BARNWELL: I have said to the group that if they're in a pinch and they need a substitute, that if I was available I would gladly join them. There are several really special productions that we've put together, and if invited I would join them for those as well.
CONAN: Laurel, thanks very much for the phone call, and thanks especially for your patience.
LAUREL: All right. Thank you. Bye now.
CONAN: Appreciate it. We're talking with Ysaye Barnwell, who after more than 35 years...
BARNWELL: Well, actually it's only 34.
CONAN: Only 34. Well, Gee Willikers. Leaving Sweet Honey in the Rock way too early. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And as you think back on what you've done over these years, yes, it's an institution, yes, you played too well, probably hundreds of thousands of audience members at this point. But are there moments that stick out for your?
BARNWELL: Absolutely. Yes. On my birthday one year - I don't remember exactly what year it was but it was in the mid-'80s, I think, we sang on the stage of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to an integrated audience with Daisy Bates sitting on the front row. That to me was amazing because I was the same age, I think, as the children who are struggling to enter that school. We were the first concert at the Obama White House. We sang at most of the rallies when Nelson Mandela was released from prison and toured the United States.
I think things like that are just - they're unforgettable and they really do mark. The significance of the music that we sing to various struggles and the fact that people here us and listen and identify and understand when it might be really important for us to join them.
CONAN: Let's see if we get another caller in on the conversation, and let's try to go to Mary. And Mary is on the line with us from Charlottesville in Virginia.
MARY: Yes. It's good to be here, and thank you for accepting my call.
CONAN: Go ahead.
MARY: Yes. I had a similar experience as to Laurel, the previous caller. Seven years ago, I co-founded a Jesuit high school in Palm Desert, California, and we're one of the youngest Jesuit high schools in the world. And just this past summer I resigned. I founded the - I was one of seven faculty and I built the art department and wrote curriculum and programs. And I knew it was time. It was an intuitive thing. I was tired.
MARY: Frankly, I - we did everything, we wore every hat imaginable, mentors, faculty, student mentors, retreat leaders, coaching, admissions, recruiting, the scholarship, everything, and it was wonderful. And it - I think - I used to say graduate school was the toughest thing I'd ever done but the best. But I would say that this experience was really, really tough but actually the best.
And I miss my students. I'm still in touch with my students, many of whom I taught as elementary students. And they came up to high school and I had a second shot. It was a great experience but I just knew, I was tired and I wanted to get my hands back in art-making. So now I'm on the East Coast. I'm extremely happy, broke...
MARY: ...but so happy, and I took a leap of faith, and I'm glad I did.
CONAN: Congratulations, and I'm glad you're happy with your decision.
MARY: Oh, thank you so much. I really, really am. And I became (unintelligible) educator. I didn't know what that meant when I first started the school, but it changed my life and the kids really blessed my life every day, and it was great. And I'm painting actively now and making sculpture and onward to the next phase.
CONAN: Onward. There's a good word. Thanks very much, Mary.
MARY: You're so welcome.
CONAN: And, Ysaye Barnwell, I'm sure that your experiences on stage were still magical. I imagine the travel got old.
BARNWELL: Actually, I don't mind travel and I think I'll continue to do it.
CONAN: Oh, good.
BARNWELL: But I think it's always tied to what I'm traveling to, and the reason I'm traveling, and the people that you meet along the way. So I don't mind it.
CONAN: Well, we wish you the best of luck in your travels and your continuing ventures.
BARNWELL: Thank you so much.
CONAN: And thanks for all the music for all those years.
BARNWELL: You're so welcome, and thank you for having Sweet Honey here. I appreciate it.
CONAN: Well, we enjoyed the experience. Believe me, it was our pleasure. Ysaye Barnwell back home from her final international tour with Sweet Honey in the Rock. She joined us here today in Studio 42.
ROCK: (Singing) I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me, to see the beauty in the world through my own eyes. I am sitting here wanting memories to teach me, to see the beauty in the world through my own eyes. You used to rock me...
CONAN: Tomorrow, actors talk about how they navigate auditions for stereotypical roles and keep their careers moving forward. Join us for that. This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Meet Eddie, twenty-three years old.
Fed up with life and the way things are going,
he decides to rob a liquor store.
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But on his way in, he has a sudden change of heart.
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Alright, stop! (Huh?)
Now before you walk in the door of this liquor store
and try to get money out the drawer
You better think of the consequence (But who are you?)
I'm your motherfuckin conscience
That's nonsense!
Go in and gaffle the money and run to one of your aunt's cribs
And borrow a damn dress, and one of her blonde wigs
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The whole neighborhood knows you and they'll expose you
Think about it before you walk in the door first
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The example below illustrates the use of ACL2 arrays. It is not, of course, a substitute for the detailed explanations provided elsewhere (see arrays, including subtopics).
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Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.
In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris' work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).
Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta'wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.
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Pilots face drug and alcohol testing when they seek a job, are involved in an accident or return from alcohol rehabilitation. Some are selected for random tests. More than 10,000 pilots are tested each year and about a dozen flunk the alcohol part a number that has remained mostly steady for more than a decade, according to federal statistics.
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"Your odds of having an impaired driver on the highway are much higher, but there's a smaller margin for error in aviation," said James Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
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"When I'm fighting, people are gonna be standing up in their living rooms hollering at the TV. If at some point that costs me my career, I don't care. I'm gonna keep on doing it until the wheels fall off." - Tim Credeur
In September of 2009, Tim Credeur fought the fight of his career against Nate Quarry, only to lose a heartbreaking three round decision.
Seven months later, he was faced with the biggest fight of his life, and it was one he couldn't afford to lose.
It all started with the usual medicals he needed to get for his UFC 113 bout with Tom Lawlor in May of 2010. It was his first fight back since his 15 minute war with Quarry, his first UFC loss, and fans were anticipating the middleweight showdown. It was a routine process until it wasn't routine anymore, and Credeur's doctor called him in to explain that there was something showing up on his brain, but that he wasn't sure what it was. Worst case scenario, it was a brain tumor. Even worse than that, since it was located in the hypothalamus, it was inoperable.
Credeur, 32 at the time, had been training in martial arts since he was a teenager. Fighting was a huge part of his life. A bigger part was his wife Mamie, and as he left the doctor's office, he struggled to come up with a plan on how to tell her.
But she called first.
He froze, not ready yet. But even if he was, she had news of her own. She was pregnant with their first child. The specter of death and the promise of life intersected that day in Louisiana, and if Credeur wanted to get a glimpse at the cruel jokes life can play on us, he instead got an eyeful.
"As nervous as I was about not fighting again, I had to shelf that," said Credeur. "It wasn't really the priority. My wife is my number one priority and I had to figure out a way to shelf my problems and shelf my frustrations and be excited with her and make her feel okay. So I didn't tell her anything for a little over a week. Then we talked about it and figured out what we were gonna do. It was kind of a blessing in disguise because since I couldn't fight, I had to focus on some other things. I had the opportunity to build my business, build my gym, train a bunch of other fighters and focus on things I hadn't been focusing on. I had been focusing on myself."
There was still the unknown mark on his brain scan though, and as the months went by, he had to return to the doctor several times.
"We had to do multiple scans over time," he said. "It was so small and so minor that they weren't sure if it was the beginning of an aneurysm or a tumor. They weren't really sure what it was, but maybe it was too dangerous for me to be fighting."
Each subsequent scan brought a little hope, but at the same time, more questions.
"Am I gonna be able to be the father that I've always wanted to be?"
"What's gonna happen to my wife?"
Finally, after a crushing wait of nearly seven months, Credeur got some unexpected good news.
"I'm okay, the thing in my brain was kinda just an anomaly, a freckle, something I was probably born with," he said, sounding drained after reliving the worst ordeal of his life. Two weeks later, more good news as Mamie gave birth to Audrey in January of this year.
Tim Credeur was alive, was going to stay that way, and he was a daddy. But the first person he gives credit to is his wife.
"My wife's tough, man," he said. "She's amazing. She's been with me through thick and thin for ten years and she stuck by my side and we gutted through it, we made it work, and we're okay."
There was only one thing missing…
A fight.
And after getting cleared to resume training and his fighting career, Credeur signed a contract to face Ed Herman this Saturday on the Ultimate Fighter Finale card in Las Vegas. For the native of Lafayette, Louisiana, it's like reconnecting with an old friend.
"The biggest thing that I missed was the competition," he said. "Competing's in my blood. I'm not the greatest athlete and I'm not the greatest talent, but that fire to compete and the enjoyment of being in the ring and getting into some battles with some of the best fighters in the world is what I miss the most. We've got to support our families, but I don't really care so much about the money, and I'm not trying to be famous. I'm not trying to do nothing else other than getting some fights. That's all I really want to do. That's why I got in this sport. I started when I was about 14 years old and I've been headlong into it ever since then."
He almost lost it too, but that only makes him want it more.
"Sometimes horrible things that happen to us are really just blessings in disguise," he said. "So I'm lucky to be able to walk away from those things a better person, a stronger person, and I thank God for the gifts we have and the blessings we have. I'm blessed to be able to compete in a sport that's always been my dream and something I wanted to be a part of. Now more than ever, I'm more inspired, more focused, and more dedicated, and more excited."
Fight fans should be excited as well, because Credeur is one of those rare souls who will always deliver a supreme effort in the Octagon by being completely willing to put himself in harm's way. The Quarry fight was the most shining example of this, as he basically threw his black belt in Jiu-Jitsu to the side in favor of a slugfest with one of the hardest-hitting 185 pounders in the world. And the shocking part of the whole ordeal was that Credeur was winning exchanges and hurting Quarry on a number of occasions before the "Rock" would roar back and tag "Crazy Tim." It was a grueling battle to remember for Credeur, regardless of the result.
"I might drop some fights sometimes, and Nate Quarry beat me fair and square, but Tim Credeur is not gonna beat Tim Credeur," he said. "I'm gonna get in there every time and fight my heart out. I'm never gonna go in there and try to eke out a decision or fight the smart fight or keep my distance and win on points. I'm never gonna fight like that. I'm not saying the way I fight is any smarter; maybe it's not, but at least when I'm fighting, people are gonna be standing up in their living rooms hollering at the TV. If at some point that costs me my career, I don't care. I'm gonna keep on doing it until the wheels fall off."
That's toughness you can't buy and you can't learn it either. Where does Credeur's come from? Louisiana soil.
"Let's be honest," he said. "I was not a widely recruited high school athlete for any sport, I'm not this great Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion talent that was scouted by the UFC. I'm not that and I never have been; I'm just a guy that worked really, really hard and made sacrifices a bunch of other people weren't willing to make to be where I'm at. And when I get in there, I'll be damned if I'm gonna beat myself. As best as I can, I'm gonna fight until either he falls down or I fall down or my heart explodes. That's the only way that I really know how. Some of that is because of the way that I've been raised. In Louisiana, there's a really blue collar mentality. We work for everything we have. So many things go wrong in our state – hurricanes destroy our homes, our lives are destroyed by the whims of the oil barons, and the oil explosion in the gulf pretty much ruined our economy. I think Louisiana is ranked 49th in the country in everything – education, roads, everything. It's a hard life down here, and it's tough. So to get by it takes hard work, sacrifice, and dedication. And that's all I know."
Audrey Credeur will learn those lessons some day as well, and when she does, that will be more important to her father than any victories in the Octagon or world championship belts around his waist. If he didn't before, he certainly knows now how precious life is, and he's living every moment of it to the fullest. Is there any better legacy to leave your child?
"I just hope that when my daughter looks back at my life, she's proud of who her dad is," he said. "I want her to be filled with pride at the sacrifices I made for her, the way I raised her, the integrity that I showed in my life and the kind of man that I was."