An homage to James Brown's "King Heroin"; this poem speaks about the scourge of COVID-19 & how America has embraced it.  In honor of all 575K+ of our family members, friends, and fellow citizens, please do your part to help end the pandemic.

"KING COVID"

"Chamber Music" by Amiri Baraka

"Ballad Air & Fire" Amiri Baraka

Poem: "He Was A Man" by Sterling A. Brown
Song: "Nature Boy" by John Coltrane

Both Directions at Once

"He Was A Man" by Sterling A. Brown

VoiceOfGOD

"Go Down, Death" By James Weldon Johnson

"Coal" by Audre Lorde

THE CREATIVE PROCESS
By James Baldwin from Creative America, Ridge Press, 1962.
Music by Herbie Hancock - "Lullaby" from Gershwin's World
I do not own the rights to the music.

The Spoken Word Podcast

Baldwin on Artists - "The Creative Process"

"Southern Cop" by Sterling A. Brown

Words by Counter Cullen
Music* by John Coltrane -"Alabama"

(I do not own the rights to this music)

I read this poem on the anniversary of Counter Cullen's birth to honor the life of Breonna Taylor.

Countee Cullen - "A Brown Girl Dead"

A recitation of an encounter with an Indiana State Trooper in the time of COVID.

State Trooper

Select choice clips from my time as cohost on the "Best of the Best" radio show on WBAI.

It was a news/politics/current events radio show on Thursday mornings 6-8am on WBAI-NYC with cohost Kirsten Magwood from January through June of 2018.

JBL BOTB Clips

A narration of a James Baldwin essay from 1979.

I do not own the rights to the music: 
Herbie Hancock's "Lullaby" from the album 'Gershwin's World"

The Baldwin Essays

"If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What Is"

A recitation of the inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning" by Maya Angelou

I do not own the rights to the music: 
Robert Glasper  "Little Church"(Remix) feat. Hiatus Kaiyote

Recitations

"On the Pulse of Morning" by Maya Angelou

Theater Manager. Drummer. Percussionist. Voice Actor. Poet. Playwright. Filmmaker. Collaborator. #VoiceOfGOD

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