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Kemet Mawakana
Do You Have A Slave Mentality?
05 Mar 2008
A.K.A. "The Seven-Foot Poet" Our resident poet asks what should be a burning question. Readers may be certain that the answer for themselves is, No - until they discover Mawakana's criteria for defining the mentality-afflicted. Experience the written and audio versions of this week's…
Bill Quigley
Skip The Analogy
06 Aug 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Metaphors, similes and such are always imprecise and inexact, never quite make the case. But our Seven Foot Poet cuts directly to the chase.
Bill Quigley
A Black President? Sure. But If We Don't Do Nothin' He Won't Do Nothin'
20 Feb 2008
a speech by Amiri Baraka, recorded earlier this month in Newark Give Obama a break, some of his supporters argue. He's got to get elected first. Till them he can't be seen acknowledging the needs of Black America for job creation on a vast scale, for an end to foreclosures, the repeal of…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Dr. King's Legacy Four Decades After His Death in Memphis
02 Apr 2008
by Dr. Robert D. Bullard
Bill Quigley
They
20 Aug 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet How many times have we heard that "they" control your hood, your head and sometimes your heart, to hear some tell it. You know "how they do us", right?" The Seven Foot Poet wants you to ask the next question. Just who are "They"?…
Bill Quigley
Are You Like Me?
27 Aug 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Some of us are more conscientious than others, honoring obligations and paying due respects. Some of us are honest about it, and some not. The Seven Foot Poet reveals a little of himself, and invites each of us to look within.
Bill Quigley
Obtuse Acute Angles
03 Sep 2008
Obtuse Acute Angles by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet
Kemet Mawakana
Mirror, Mirror
22 Apr 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “…
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 make you feeel gooood? Can't we all just get along? Can't they let…
Kemet Mawakana
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 the link below to hear or to read Amaretto Sour