Overview

Celebrate one of the most important writers and scholars of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez. Throughout a distinguished career of 70+ years, her poetry has rocked the spoken-word scene and our nation. Join us as we give well-deserved flowers to this revolutionary voice of activism, Black identity and social justice. Sanchez herself will take the stage, along with special guests Mayor Ras. J Baraka, Mahagony L. Browne, Saul Williams and the Christian McBride Trio.

 

“This is not a small voice

you hear     this is a large

voice coming out of these cities.”

–Sonia Sanchez