Ruth Naomi Floyd (Jazz Singer, Photographer, Servant of the City)

Ruth Naomi Floyd is a remarkably talented person: a powerful jazz singer, steeped in her African American heritage and jazz's roots in the Spirituals and Blues; a portrait photographer; a teacher; a worker amongst those living with HIV/AIDS, in her home town of Philadelphia and in Kenya. Our conversation ranged widely over everything from Malcolm X to Queen Victoria, Calvary to Kenya, Job to joy. Podcast includes a few musical excerpts taken from her albums: - Walk & Not Be Faint (1999) - Fan into Flame (2002) - Root to the Fruit (2006) Further details on

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Ruth Naomi Floyd (Jazz Singer, Photographer, Servant of the City) is an episode from Quaerentia Conversations by markmeynell.

This episode is 01:13:30 long.

This episode was published on May 11, 2013.

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