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Jesse Belvin: The most gifted of all

The legendary Etta James was high on Belvin. She bluntly called Belvin, "The most gifted of all...even now I consider him the greatest singer of my generation. Rhythm and blues, rock and roll, crooner, you name it. He was going to be bigger than Sam Cooke, bigger than Nat Cole."

Poetry in motion

Below is work by poet Claude McKay who was instrumental in the fight for revolutionary ideas that were being debated and bloomed in what...

Oppose Obama’s escalation of war against oppressed people!

“We have no interest in occupying your country,” President Obama told the people of Afghanistan and the world, on December 1. He then proceeded to...

Langston Hughes “Merry Christmas”

The following poem was written by Langston Hughes. He was an instrumental African during the Harlem Renaissance, a period in the 1920s following the...

Challenging Cuba as the violator of black people’s rights? Really?

What I am struck by is how these Africans are able to step over all of the attacks against African people that they can see before them in the U.S. and, instead of writing a statement to Obama demanding an end to them, go all the way to Cuba to address contradictions that I’d bet most of them know nothing about.

Poetry in Motion: Hey beautiful Black

Hey beautiful black man, come up here, up where? up here where I'm at,where are you? thinking how beautiful you are in your blackness,...

Mutabaruka Speaks in Houston

After hearing Chairman Omali Yeshitela speak in Houston on October 18, 2009, well-known African poet from Jamaica, Mutabaruka made this statement to the audience. I...

Poetry in Motion: Self Affirmation

I am the stuff of legend only talked about in the circles of men who’ve heard and want to seek me out They want...

The 12th Annual Sankofa Caravan to the Ancestors

As early as Thursday, October 15th people from across the country began to converge to the cities of Houston and Galveston, Texas for one...
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