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Wynton Marsalis. If you like Jazz music, you know this name. According to Wynton Marsalis’ Bio on Twitter: ‘Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture.‘ Now you see why you must know his name. But it is nothing until you hear Marsalis play the trumpet… In this Twitter Sunday, it is all about Jazz and musicians, as the tweets @wyntonmarsalis ...

For this new Twitter Sunday, we have selected an organization which, as you can read on its Twitter Bio, is ‘Putting a face on the numbers. Connecting communities in danger with communities that are willing and able to help’. This organization is i-ACT by Stop Genocide Now and you can read more on this page: Interactive-ACTivism connects the surviving victims of this genocide with those who want to help, creating an interconnected ...

John Legend is Grammy award-winning artist and philanthropist; two good reasons for us to share with you our Favorites Tweets @johnlegend. We liked his two albums Get Lifted (‘Stay With You’) and Evolver (‘Take Me Away’), and we are very excited about his new one: Wake Up! which will be released on September 21, 2010. John Legend is also a philanthropist, he founded the Show Me Campaign: Created by Grammy award-winning artist John ...

Mapendo International was founded to protect and care for at-risk refugees in Africa and we want to introduce you to the organization if you don’t know it already. According to Wikipedia, Mapendo was founded in 2003 by Sasha Chanoff and Dr. John Wagacha Burton. While conducting refugee rescue operations with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Sasha became aware of the unseen and therefore unmet needs of the many refugees living in ...

Emmanuel Jal is a Sudanese musician and former child soldier. We know him since the release of his third album Warchild two years ago and we are following him on Twitter @EmmanuelJAL. If you don’t know him already, his quick bio on Twitter already tells a lot: ‘I do not know how to start or end this bio,but just to put it short, I am an ex child soldier turned into a recording artist.’ Emmanuel Jal is a great singer and he is also an ...

Today we want to share with you our ‘Favorites Tweets’ @CIVICUSalliance. Last year, Max Dana mentioned their amazing work in her post: Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough?, and in May we published an article about CIVICUS 2010 World Assembly in Montreal -Register now! in which we mentioned the connection between Max Dana and CIVICUS: the artwork from the  ‘60 Signers for the 60th Anniversary’ Initiative launched by Max in ...

Save the children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. We follow the organization on Twitter for a while and we mentioned it several times on the Sama Gazette : Mother’s Day: Gifts, articles and mothers over the world; This is World Kids Coloring Day!; Valentine’s Day: (RED)Kisses & products, eCards… Today we decided to share with you our Favorites ...

We are serious people at the Sama Gazette, but we are also proud members of the Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society. We like good food, good atmosphere and joie de vivre. Today, this Twitter Sunday is about French Chef Ludo Lefebvre. A pretty girl named Amélie, who ate at his restaurant, told us about him and his fabulous cuisine. Since then we follow @chefludo on Twitter and his tweets have the power to cheer us up! About Chef Ludo Lefebvre (read more on ...

Last week Amnesty International celebrated its 40th anniversary. This is why we decided to honor the organization and dedicate this Twitter Sunday to @AmnestyOnline. Amnesty International holds a special place for us because the organization (represented by Geneviève Garrigos, President of Amnesty International France – AIF) signed the “60 Signers for the 60th Anniversary” Initiative launched by Max Dana on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of ...

There are many artists we didn’t know before Max Dana told us. We are not going to mention them all, but American artist Tristan Eaton is one of them. We are following him for several months on Twitter @tristaneaton and we more and more appreciate his work. He’s working on a new exhibition and he shares on Twitter his sketches, paintings and some murals he’s working on. And now, we share them with you! Here are our Favorites Tweets ...