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Kemet Mawakana
A Kwanzaa Poem
29 Dec 2009
by the Seven Foot Poet In the coming year, we expect to hear a lot more from the Seven Foot Poet, who here conveys to our readership his holiday greetings.
Kemet Mawakana
Why You Wanna Be Like White People?
16 Jul 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Some questions never get old. And even when they do, they never become irrelevant. The Seven Foot Poet finds new ways to pose this old question,…
Kemet Mawakana
Hopes And Dreams
09 Jul 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Like Dr. King, we've all got a dream, for ourselves, for our families, for our futures. Some of us even have a plan. But there are dreams and there…
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For The Love of Money
02 Jul 2008
By Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet \Who gets paid? Who gets played? What will, or won't be done, and to whom - for the love of money? The Seven Foot Poet knows.
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I Hate Being Jackie Robinson
24 Jun 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) There is a special burden that goes with being "the first", or "the only", or "one of the few" black faces in a workplace, school or…
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My Father Is Black Like God
11 Jun 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) This week the Seven Foot Poet reaches back to the zone of origins and ancestors to speak of his own father, and his father, and his before him.
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Indigo Blues
04 Jun 2008
by Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) Is it science fiction? Is it past prediction? He never confuses, our poet, he muses.
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Scholar Warrior
28 May 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) Born in 1731 the son of a slave, Benjamin Banneker was a free African American, a self-taught clock maker, astronomer, and mathematician. He…
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Amaretto Sour
07 May 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) This week the poet signs a hymn in praise to someone who never knew her own greatness back in the day, and hopes that she is rising now. Click…
Kemet Mawakana
The Campaign, part 3 of 4: Open Letter to White America
30 Apr 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) So goooood. The presidential campaign of Barack Obama makes Black folk (and many whites) feeeel so gooood. Admit it. Wouldn't a Black president…