Can't believe today was my first time seeing this! Loving it. Two amazing artists on the same stage. I would of loved to be in this audience. -Paradyme
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Mural featuring Taalam Acey in LA
"The last time I was in Los Angeles (10/23/10) a
group of Graffiti
artists lead by Caprice Myles painted a mural of me
in Watts."-
Here is the address if you are in the area and want to check it out
10950 Central Ave in Watts.
Friday, November 5, 2010
The Spot Welcomes Rotimi Nov 11th @10 p.m. est.
Click here to listen to Rotimi tonight on The Spot Nov. 11th at 10pm est.
Rotimi is definitly one to watch out for. His soulful voice has created a buzz in the industry as an artist on his way up. Keep an eye on him or you will wish you had! -Paradyme
Rotimi has shared the stage with the award winning America’s Best Dance Crew- Jabbawockies, Fabolous, TI, Trey Songz, Estelle, NERD, and Bobby Valentino, amongst others. Rotimi's philanthropic efforts include Kanye West's Concert Benefit for Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University's highly acclaimed charity event- Dance Marathon.
With his newly released online single “Beautiful Music”, securing thousands of downloads each day, along with reappearances on WGCI's "The Come Up" and "Whispers in the Dark", Rotimi has developed himself as a capable artist and industry force. It is no wonder people are labeling him- The Future of R and B.
"Rotimi has a powerful voice"- Sean "Jay Z" Carter
"Rotimi is a young Michael Jackson"- Vickie Winans
Rotimi is definitly one to watch out for. His soulful voice has created a buzz in the industry as an artist on his way up. Keep an eye on him or you will wish you had! -Paradyme
At 15 years old, Rotimi wowed the historically brutal crowd at the world renown Apollo Theater, singing his way to first place at amateur night. Since then, the New /songwriter/actor/model has achieved national recognition for his powerful vocals and distinctive confidence. Across the nation, Rotimi has captured the hearts of plenty, reaching a fan base of over 50,000 through constant touring and vibrant media campaigns.
Rotimi has shared the stage with the award winning America’s Best Dance Crew- Jabbawockies, Fabolous, TI, Trey Songz, Estelle, NERD, and Bobby Valentino, amongst others. Rotimi's philanthropic efforts include Kanye West's Concert Benefit for Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University's highly acclaimed charity event- Dance Marathon.
With his newly released online single “Beautiful Music”, securing thousands of downloads each day, along with reappearances on WGCI's "The Come Up" and "Whispers in the Dark", Rotimi has developed himself as a capable artist and industry force. It is no wonder people are labeling him- The Future of R and B.
"Rotimi has a powerful voice"- Sean "Jay Z" Carter
"Rotimi is a young Michael Jackson"- Vickie Winans
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Show of the Week- Soul City Radio
There are alot of folks out there that are tired of listening to the same senseless songs on repeat all day. If you are one of them, welcome home.
It is and always will be our mission to be the voice of the Indie artist. If you are amongst the masses that create music because you have love for it, you have a station willing, ready and able to let your sound be heard. This is where up and coming artists can get their sound out to the masses.
Check it out here at
www.soulcityradio.com
Freedom's INK's own Leketia "PBS" Brown on the Cover of "Her H.E.A.R.T." Magazine
This issue of Her H.E.A.R.T. magazine features Leketia Brown A.K.A. PoeticBrownSuga, an outstanding poet, author and online radio show host. It is packed with poetry, inspirational writings, and original quotes. It is all about words and using them to uplift and not condemn. Check out this issue and you will definately be inspired and you may want to pick up your pen and do some writing of your own.
Get your copy at http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/125565
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Can She Be Saved? A Closer Look.
Winner of 4 Awards including: Best First Film at the 2010 Intl Youth Film Festival, Best Documentary at the NC Black Film Festival!!!`
Still Eye Rise Pictures is proud to announce the film festival release of the ground-breaking film, Can She Be Saved? directed by filmmaker, best selling author and youth activist, Yasmin Shiraz.
Can She Be Saved? features 8th grade girls from Syracuse, NY who’ve been labeled aggressive by their teachers and guidance counselors. “This film gives girls who fight the opportunity to speak up and talk about their anger and their propensity toward violence,” said Shiraz.
Can She Be Saved? documents real girl fights throughout the US and shows how this recent phenomenon has become entrenched in American culture through songs, music videos and films. “Many people are shocked by our girl fight footage, but girl fights have become the norm in many areas in the US – both urban and suburban,” noted Shiraz.
Can She Be Saved? aims to elevate the voices of teen girls who fight and the reasons behind their violence as well as explain how girl violence impacts academic excellence, self esteem and a girl’s overall future.
Can She Be Saved? will be screened at schools, youth organizations and film festivals in major cities across the country throughout 2011. Following the screenings, youth will have the opportunity to participate in discussions on violence with the director and community leaders.
For more info please contact Yasmin Shiraz
***I am definitly supporting this project. We talk about it all the time as a community regardless of color. Our young women are angry, they are distructive and everyone is asking the questions but i respect Yasmine for seeking the answers. - Paradyme***
Do Not Be A Bully Bystander! Take A Stand!
Teach your children what to do if they see someone bullying another person. Stop teaching our children to look the other way!
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For more info on how to pledge to not be a bystander visit bullyingbystandersunite.org
Spotlight on Amiri Baraka
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| Amira Baraka James Madison University Photography Services |
Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7, 1934. His father, Colt LeRoy Jones, was a postal supervisor; Anna Lois Jones, his mother, was a social worker. He attended Rutgers University for two years, then transferred to Howard University, where in 1954 he earned his B.A. in English. He served in the Air Force from 1954 until 1957, then moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There he joined a loose circle of Greenwich Village artists, musicians, and writers. The following year he married Hettie Cohen and began co-editing the avant-garde literary magazine Yugen with her. That year he also founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others.
He published his first volume of poetry, Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note, in 1961. From 1961 to 1963 he was co-editor, with Diane Di Prima, of The Floating Bear, a literary newsletter. His increasing hostility toward and mistrust of white society was reflected in two plays, The Slave and The Toilet, both written in 1962. 1963 saw the publication of Blues People: Negro Music in White America, which he wrote, and The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America, which he edited and introduced. His reputation as a playwright was established with the production of Dutchman at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York on March 24, 1964. The controversial play subsequently won an Obie Award (for "best off-Broadway play") and was made into a film.
In 1965, following the assassination of Malcolm X, Jones repudiated his former life and ended his marriage. He moved to Harlem, where he founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School. The company, which produced plays that were often anti-white and intended for a black audience, dissolved in a few months. He moved back to Newark, and in 1967 he married African-American poet Sylvia Robinson (now known as Amina Baraka). That year he also founded the Spirit House Players, which produced, among other works, two of Baraka's plays against police brutality: Police and Arm Yrself or Harm Yrself.
In 1968, he co-edited Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing with Larry Neal and his play Home on the Range was performed as a benefit for the Black Panther party. That same year he became a Muslim, changing his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka. ("Imamu" means "spiritual leader.") He assumed leadership of his own black Muslim organization, Kawaida. From 1968 to 1975, Baraka was chairman of the Committee for Unified Newark, a black united front organization. In 1969 , his Great Goodness of Life became part of the successful "Black Quartet" off-Broadway, and his play Slave Ship was widely reviewed. Baraka was a founder and chairman of the Congress of African People, a national Pan-Africanist organization with chapters in 15 cities, and he was one of the chief organizers of the National Black Political Convention, which convened in Gary, Indiana, in 1972 to organize a more unified political stance for African-Americans.
In 1974 Baraka adopted a Marxist Leninist philosophy and dropped the spiritual title "Imamu." In 1983, he and Amina Baraka edited Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and in 1987 they published The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues. TheAutobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka was published in 1984.
Amiri Baraka's numerous literary prizes and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City College of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He has taught poetry at the New School for Social Research in New York, literature at the University of Buffalo, and drama at Columbia University. He has also taught at San Francisco State University, Yale University and George Washington University. Since 1985 he has been a professor of Africana Studies at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. He is co-director, with his wife, of Kimako's Blues People, a community arts space. Amiri and Amina Baraka live in Newark, New Jersey.
A Selected Bibliography
Poetry
Black Art (1969)Black Magic: Collected Poetry 1961-1967 (1969)Funk Lore: New Poems (1984-1995) (1996)It's Nation Time (1970)Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note (1961)Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1979)Spirit Reach (1972)The Dead Lecturer (1964)The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (1991)Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (1961-1995) (1995)Wise Why's Y's: The Griot's Tale (1995)
Prose
Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka (1984)Conversations with Amiri Baraka (1994)Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 (1984)Eulogies (1996)Home: Social Essays (1966)Jesse Jackson & Black People (1996)Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965 (1971)The Essence of Reparations (2003)
Drama
Arm Yrself or Harm Yrself (1967)BA-RA-KA (1972)Black Power Chant (1972)Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays (1964)Four Black Revolutionary Plays, All Praises to the Black Man (1969)General Hag's Skeezag (1992)Home on the Range (1968)Jello (1970)Junkies Are Full of (SHHH...) (1970)Police (1968)Rockgroup (1969)Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1979)The Baptism and The Toilet (1967)The Death of Malcolm X (1969)The Motion of History, and Other Plays (1978)The Sidney Poet Heroical, in 29 Scenes (1979)
Fiction
Tales (1967)The System of Dante's Hell (1965)Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jone
- From Poets.Org
Somebody Blew Up America
by AMIRI BARAKASomebody Blew Up America
They say its some terrorist,
some barbaric
A Rab,
in Afghanistan
It wasn't our American terrorists
It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads
Or the them that blows up nigger
Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row
It wasn't Trent Lott
Or David Duke or Giuliani
Or Schundler, Helms retiring
It wasn't
The gonorrhea in costume
The white sheet diseases
That have murdered black people
Terrorized reason and sanity
Most of humanity, as they pleases
They say (who say?)
Who do the saying
Who is them paying
Who tell the lies
Who in disguise
Who had the slaves
Who got the bux out the Bucks
Who got fat from plantations
Who genocided Indians
Tried to waste the Black nation
Who live on Wall Street
The first plantation
Who cut your nuts off
Who rape your ma
Who lynched your pa
Who got the tar, who got the feathers
Who had the match, who set the fires
Who killed and hired
Who say they God & still be the Devil
Who the biggest only
Who the most goodest
Who do Jesus resemble
Who created everything
Who the smartest
Who the greatest
Who the richest
Who say you ugly and they the goodlookingest
Who define art
Who define science
Who made the bombs
Who made the guns
Who bought the slaves, who sold them
Who called you them names
Who say Dahmer wasn't insane
Who? Who? Who?
Who stole Puerto Rico
Who stole the Indies, the Philipines, Manhattan
Australia & The Hebrides
Who forced opium on the Chinese
Who own them buildings
Who got the money
Who think you funny
Who locked you up
Who own the papers
Who owned the slave ship
Who run the army
Who the fake president
Who the ruler
Who the banker
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the mine
Who twist your mind
Who got bread
Who need peace
Who you think need war
Who own the oil
Who do no toil
Who own the soil
Who is not a nigger
Who is so great ain't nobody bigger
Who own this city
Who own the air
Who own the water
Who own your crib
Who rob and steal and cheat and murder
and make lies the truth
Who call you uncouth
Who live in the biggest house
Who do the biggest crime
Who go on vacation anytime
Who killed the most niggers
Who killed the most Jews
Who killed the most Italians
Who killed the most Irish
Who killed the most Africans
Who killed the most Japanese
Who killed the most Latinos
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the ocean
Who own the airplanes
Who own the malls
Who own television
Who own radio
Who own what ain't even known to be owned
Who own the owners that ain't the real owners
Who own the suburbs
Who suck the cities
Who make the laws
Who made Bush president
Who believe the confederate flag need to be flying
Who talk about democracy and be lying
Who the Beast in Revelations
Who 666
Who know who decide
Jesus get crucified
Who the Devil on the real side
Who got rich from Armenian genocide
Who the biggest terrorist
Who change the bible
Who killed the most people
Who do the most evil
Who don't worry about survival
Who have the colonies
Who stole the most land
Who rule the world
Who say they good but only do evil
Who the biggest executioner
Who? Who? Who?
Who own the oil
Who want more oil
Who told you what you think that later you find out a lie
Who? Who? Who?
Who found Bin Laden, maybe they Satan
Who pay the CIA,
Who knew the bomb was gonna blow
Who know why the terrorists
Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego
Who know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion
And cracking they sides at the notion
Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere
Who make the credit cards
Who get the biggest tax cut
Who walked out of the Conference
Against Racism
Who killed Malcolm, Kennedy & his Brother
Who killed Dr King, Who would want such a thing?
Are they linked to the murder of Lincoln?
Who invaded Grenada
Who made money from apartheid
Who keep the Irish a colony
Who overthrow Chile and Nicaragua later
Who killed David Sibeko, Chris Hani,
the same ones who killed Biko, Cabral,
Neruda, Allende, Che Guevara, Sandino,
Who killed Kabila, the ones who wasted Lumumba, Mondlane,
Betty Shabazz, Die, Princess Di, Ralph Featherstone,
Little Bobby
Who locked up Mandela, Dhoruba, Geronimo,
Assata, Mumia, Garvey, Dashiell Hammett, Alphaeus Hutton
Who killed Huey Newton, Fred Hampton,
Medgar Evers, Mikey Smith, Walter Rodney,
Was it the ones who tried to poison Fidel
Who tried to keep the Vietnamese Oppressed
Who put a price on Lenin's head
Who put the Jews in ovens,
and who helped them do it
Who said "America First"
and ok'd the yellow stars
Who killed Rosa Luxembourg, Liebneckt
Who murdered the Rosenbergs
And all the good people iced,
tortured, assassinated, vanished
Who got rich from Algeria, Libya, Haiti,
Iran, Iraq, Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine,
Who cut off peoples hands in the Congo
Who invented Aids
Who put the germs
In the Indians' blankets
Who thought up "The Trail of Tears"
Who blew up the Maine
& started the Spanish American War
Who got Sharon back in Power
Who backed Batista, Hitler, Bilbo,
Chiang kai Chek
Who decided Affirmative Action had to go
Reconstruction, The New Deal,
The New Frontier, The Great Society,
Who do Tom Ass Clarence Work for
Who doo doo come out the Colon's mouth
Who know what kind of Skeeza is a Condoleeza
Who pay Connelly to be a wooden negro
Who give Genius Awards to Homo Locus
Subsidere
Who overthrew Nkrumah, Bishop,
Who poison Robeson,
who try to put DuBois in Jail
Who frame Rap Jamil al Amin, Who frame the Rosenbergs,
Garvey,
The Scottsboro Boys,
The Hollywood Ten
Who set the Reichstag Fire
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?
Who? Who? Who?
Explosion of Owl the newspaper say
The devil face cd be seen
Who make money from war
Who make dough from fear and lies
Who want the world like it is
Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national
oppression and terror violence, and hunger and poverty.
Who is the ruler of Hell?
Who is the most powerful
Who you know ever
Seen God?
But everybody seen
The Devil
Like an Owl exploding
In your life in your brain in your self
Like an Owl who know the devil
All night, all day if you listen, Like an Owl
Exploding in fire. We hear the questions rise
In terrible flame like the whistle of a crazy dog
Like the acid vomit of the fire of Hell
Who and Who and WHO who who
Whoooo and Whooooooooooooooooooooo!
Copyright 2002. Amiri Baraka.
Monday, November 1, 2010
2nd Annual National Poetry Awards!
The 2nd Annual National Poetry Awards is on the Move
(Dallas, TX)--2nd Annual National Poetry Awards moves to Dallas, TX. Around the country, millions share the love of creative thought and writing. Now, Texans will have the opportunity to host those same brilliant minds in yet another weekend to remember.
On August 19-21, 2011 the 2nd Annual National Poetry Awards (NPAs) will take stage in Downtown Dallas, Texas. Hosted by Award winning internationally renowned poet Michael Guinn from Irving, Texas, the NPAs are in need of a co-host for this event. Sponsored by Silent Myndz Entertainment, Creative Impowerment, STAP.org, Deep Entertainment Productionz, Sapphire Entertainment, Complexx Visionz Multimedia, & Electic Media, the 2nd Annual NPAs has huge shoes to fill.
The 1st Annual NPAs held in Raleigh, North Carolina were a resounding success. As a result, 2010 NPA award recipients continue to claim victory by receiving additional awards, introduction to other artists and fans, television appearances, participating in various book panels, spoken word and slam team competitions, publishing poetry in print, on the Internet and audio recordings, mentoring, and the list grows daily. The 2nd Annual National Poetry Awards will be bigger and better than ever overflowing the weekend with open mic forums, conferences, workshops, poetry contests, welcoming celebrations and the NPA ceremony. This historical event will give many silent voices the chance to be heard. Artists who utilize pen and paper as their sole instruments may not have had an opportunity to be recognized for their genius before last year. The 2nd Annual National Poetry Awards will do just that—provide a scene to recognize the poets and spoken word artists who were previously denied the chance to receive public accolades.
"The National Poetry Awards has been a dream of mine for years. I am excited that I have yet to wake because my dream came true last year and it is continuing again. I am thankful that every person I approach about the NPAs supports my dream," said Troy "Poet" Lewis, Founder of the National Poetry Awards.
Nominations of your favorite poets run for three months from March 15 - June 15 and the four nominees with the most category votes will receive 2011 NPA nods with voting being counted for one month beginning June 20 – July 20.
The 2nd Annual National Poetry Awards seeks presenting and media sponsors. Donations of any kind will be accepted and portions of the proceeds from the awards will be donated to art councils and schools throughout the United States. Tickets for the 2011 NPAs will become available in the coming months.
For more info on the 2nd Annual National Poetry Awards, Please visit the official website www.nationalpoetryawards.org or email us nationalpoetryawards@gmail.com.
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