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Tongue Tactics: 9 Afro-Latino Poets Who Get Radical On The Mic

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Aja Monet Of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator and human rights advocate. “Education was the village that raised me,” she stated. “I care about it because I recognize the difference it makes in my life and the impact it has on fine-tuning my vision.” Last spring, Aja relocated from her native Brooklyn to Miami, FL to open up Smoke…
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Here’s a Smoke Signal, we need your help!

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  umi selah (aka phillip agnew)  & aja monet We are trying to raise $10,000 on Indie GoGo with two more weeks to go in order to create a community studio in Little Haiti, Miami. The studio will serve as a revolutionary music space funded by donations from our community. Please contribute TODAY! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-2_aGIFMw
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Poet Aja Monet Confronts Police Brutality Against Black Women With #SayHerName

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“Melissa Williams,” Aja Monet reads, “Darnisha Harris.” Her voice is strong; it marches along, but it shakes a little, although not from nerves. She’s performing a poem that includes the forgotten names of girls and women who’ve been injured or killed by the police. She finishes forcefully, then pauses, exhales. “Can I do that again?” she asks. “It’s my first time reading it out loud,…

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