NYC Men Teach presents: a Hip Hop Cypher featuring Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets!
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#BrooklynGirlCode™ #TBT’s: #AmberRose and #KanyeWest Understood the Assignment !!!
It was the early 2000’s and we were all still getting adjusted to the new millenium and what was to come. Then enters Amber Rose! We didn’t know who she was. All we knew was that she was Kanye’s latest muse and she could dress her @$$ off! There’s been a lot of talk lately.Continue reading “#BrooklynGirlCode™ #TBT’s: #AmberRose and #KanyeWest Understood the Assignment !!!”
A Night w/ Umar Bin Hassan @ Petra’s!
Official Petra’s event flier for Poet, Umar Bin Hassan of legendary spoken word group The Last Poets.
May 19th Marks The #50th Anniversary of #TheLastPoets Groundbreaking Debut #Album!
The year was 1968. In Harlem and all over the world an uprising was occurring due to the major events that had taken place earlier in the decade. For African-Americans, it seemed like all hope had been lost. All of our prominent leaders had been either erased or shot down by mysterious forces. Continue reading “May 19th Marks The #50th Anniversary of #TheLastPoets Groundbreaking Debut #Album!”
May 19th Marks The 50th Anniversary of #TheLastPoets Groundbreaking #Debut Album!
The year was 1968. In Harlem and all over the world an uprising was occurring due to the major events that had taken place earlier in the decade. For African-Americans, it seemed like all hope had been lost. All of our prominent leaders had been either erased or shot down by mysterious forces. To callContinue reading “May 19th Marks The 50th Anniversary of #TheLastPoets Groundbreaking #Debut Album!”
#TheLastPoets 50th Anniversary Celebration Live This Weekend In #Philly!
Guess what?! Despite all that’s going on and has went on this month of February, it’s still Black History Month on the planet Earth 🌍! And in honor of their 50th Anniversary, my father’s group, the legendary Last Poets will be live in Philly this weekend with fellow poets Sonia Sanchez and Ursula Rucker toContinue reading “#TheLastPoets 50th Anniversary Celebration Live This Weekend In #Philly!”
Remembering #TheLastPoets for #NationalPoetryMonth
April marks National Poetry Month across the globe. So, it’s only right for #BrooklynGirlCode to take a little time out to remember one of the seminal groups responsible for the evolution of modern day poetry and what would later become Hip-Hop music. The Last Poets formed in Harlem, New York in 1969. But, little didContinue reading “Remembering #TheLastPoets for #NationalPoetryMonth”
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