Artist Spotlight: Erykah Badu |
She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The grooves and ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:03:00 GMT |
Artist Spotlight: Amiri Baraka |
Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who ha...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:00 GMT |
Artist Spotlight: Nikki Giovanni |
Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Over the past thirty years, her outspokenness, in her writing and in lectures, has brought the eyes of the world ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:53:00 GMT |
Artist Spotlight: J.Ivy |
In the beginning there was the word, the foundation of all forms of art. And when it comes to the art of Poetry or new age Spoken Word, J. Ivy has truly served as a poetic pioneer. Not only was the C...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:57:00 GMT |
Artist Spotlight: Langston Hughes |
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967)Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Merc...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 14:54:00 GMT |
Artist Spotlight: Gwendolyn Brooks |
Gwendolyn Brooks was born to Keziah Corine Wims and David Anderson Brooks on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Her family moved to their permanent residence on Champlin Avenue in Chicago when Brooks w...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 18:50:00 GMT |
