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Last month, during a rally in Union Square, poet Aja Monet took the podium dressed entirely in black, looking somber and resolute like a woman in mourning. A banner fluttered in the wind behind her head as she gripped the microphone, a flag adorned by photographs of the black women and girls who have lost their lives to police violence over the years. “I am…
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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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“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,…
http://acountrycalledearth.com/2015/12/25/the-love-that-develops-in-a-foxhole
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