Listen to Ewuare X. Osayande at the “Standing Our Ground” Rally for Marissa Alexander Activist and poet Ewuare Osayande joined other speakers including Pam Africa at a speak-out/teach-in for Marissa Alexander, African American mother serving a 20 year sentence for defending herself without killing anyone in the same state (FL) that failed to arrest George …
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Poet and activist Ewuare Osayande will appear alongside legendary poet icon Amiri Baraka and others for a discussion on the state of progressive and radical arts at Vision Festival 17 on Sunday, June 17, 2012. The panel “Freedom for Sale – Poets and Prophets” begins at 4 pm and concludes at 6 pm. Visions Festival …
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Copyright 2012 by Ewuare X. Osayande they will kill you and say I’m sorry and expect your mother to forgive and forget she ever gave birth to you carried you in love for nine months endured labor and pushed you out with God’s might moving in her hips ever fed you life from her …
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Philadelphia – Author, Activist and Director of People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism (POWER) Ewuare X. Osayande will discuss “The Myth of Race and the Reality of Racism” as part of a larger series of events throughout Philadelphia in commemoration of the 200th birthday of Martin R. Delany, the father of Black nationalism, presented by …
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Whose America? New and Selected Poems by Ewuare X. Osayande Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande releases his latest book entitled Whose America?, a collection of poems that takes on the political climate of this country and garners the praises of two living legends of Black poetry, …
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Cherry Hill English teacher raps about Greek mythology before a classroom of cheering students. A Rutgers-Camden adjunct professor posts his verse on YouTube, creating a new form of art, the video poem. And one of the world’s best spoken-word artists — a Camden native — manages to make a living at her craft. Poetry is enjoying wider, …
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by Ewuare X. Osayande George Zimmerman has been arrested. And we have no one to thank for that but we, ourselves, the hundred-thousands, if not millions, of mainly African Americans who rallied all over this country with one aim: Justice for Trayvon Martin. And in this interim before the trial is set to begin, this …
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by Ewuare X. Osayande On February 17, 2012 it was reported that the publisher of XXL magazine has decided to “suspend” unnamed staff members after a number of groups have called for the magazine’s editor to be fired for publishing a video interview of rap artist Too $hort (Todd Shaw) in which he gives “fatherly …
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by Ewuare X. Osayande In honor of the Women’s History Month, and, more so, in honor of the herstory of Black women and the truths of that story that continue to be overlooked, undermined, belittled and denied by men, I have compiled a list of twelve books that have educated me toward a greater understanding, respect and …
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Misogyny & the Emcee: Sex, Race & Hip Hop PHILADELPHIA– Taking on the single most controversial issue in the hip hop world, award-winning author and political activist Ewuare X. Osayande pulls no punches and takes no prisoners in this tour de force of critical essays on the exploitation of Black women in the rap industry. Written …
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