African Artist Intellectual Property with Foza Fawehinmi - Artist Works
“You are also competing with the guy that goes on TikTok and eats 10,000 pieces of meat and is a superstar. Right? So Superstardom is no...
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Jul 30, 20221 min read
Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You (1970)
“The love of all mankind should reflect some sign of these words I've tried to recite. They're close but not quite.” Curtis Lee Mayfield...
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Jul 29, 20222 min read
Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Artist Works
“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”
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Jul 27, 20221 min read
Prayer of the 54th Regiment Before the Battle of Fort Wagner - Morgan Freeman
“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!” Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the...
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Jul 21, 20221 min read
An Artist’s Duty - Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace,
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Jul 7, 20222 min read
Robert Frost Reads His Poem The Road Not Taken
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back..” Poem’s Meaning according to Ben Kageyama: “Robert Frost...
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Jun 30, 20221 min read
No Time - A beautiful sad soul blues folk tune by Ronald Charles McKernan
"My poor heart can't stand no more, so why don't you just stop talking? If you gonna walk out that door, start walking."
I heard this song o
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Jun 29, 20222 min read
Chisenga - Global Hip Hop Artist, Producer, and Sound Engineer
“Sometimes I'll be feeling all alone…like, am I the only person that believes it? But I believe in it enough to know that where there's a wi
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Jun 28, 20221 min read
My soul has grown deep like the rivers - Langston Hughes
“I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the suns
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Jun 7, 20221 min read
James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge
James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge. The one thing you had to do, is try to tell the truth.
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May 25, 20222 min read
Bill Fletcher Jr.’s novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky - Book Talks
Bill Fletcher pulls together history and mystery to create an exciting and compelling story of race and revenge.
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May 21, 20221 min read
Quarantine with Rilke with Poet and Author Asnia Asim - Artist Spotlight Series
Asnia Asim is a poet and writer and her new book of poems, Quarantine with Rilke, shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self, a quiet
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Jun 13, 20212 min read
Dylan James Brock Author of Roosevelt, Michigan - EMLab Artist Profiles
“The world works better when you try to understand first and then be understood. What I found throughout this book was that if I reduced...
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May 12, 20211 min read
Grassroots Comedy DC with Chris Blackwood - EMLab Artist Profiles
Chris Blackwood is co-founder of Grassroots Comedy DC (GCDC), which sits at the crossroads of comedy and advocacy, to make humans laugh...
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