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What’s African American about African American poetry? Fragments/(pieces of myth in the science, or is it pieces of time in the silence or is it The Loud Minority, deluxeremix edition, directed by Spike Lee, and starring Spike Lee and me (gotta have it) to get it), filmed from above with a free floating dolly so […]

Counterspells Against Bullshit and Jive by Brightmoments on Mixcloud Light My Fire: A Counterspell Against Bullshit and Jive Shadow and Light. Shadow and Act. Faulkner and Ellison. Shade Tree and Time to Face the Sun. The rugged elegance of fame and fortune the hood rich way can lure anyone through the nondescript back door of […]

Toward the Divine Feminine by Brightmoments on Mixcloud   You Can Get With This, or You Can Get With That: Thoughts on the Divine Feminine in the Everyday At the dawn of spring, volta of all that winter hush along the annual sonnet for amnesty repeated again and again in all the ways I’m so […]

The Negro Artist and the Sacred Mountain (1) Begin With Denouement and You End Up In Synch This is about lifting the thumb from the bow. A talent for devotion goes black blooded to the over-soul and convinces us the aim is love which when we pierce it, enters us. That force of nature that […]

Excerpts from a Manifesto by Brightmoments on Mixcloud Put it on a Record In the spirit of the spirit that guides us through this holiday season of syncretism and magic, myth and legend, ritual and renewal, cold fact and smoldering truth—this month’s edition of the Feed is dedicated to and excerpted from a “Call for […]

Tones for a Black President by Brightmoments on Mixcloud From Gil Scott Heron’s “Whitey on the Moon,” to Lord Beginner’s “General Election,” to most of Fela Kuti’s recording catalog, the list of classic protest songs that call out the tacit travesties of our political system with the deadpan force of the literal and exact, is […]

In the Mecca by Brightmoments on Mixcloud   The year 1968 continues to light the way through the dark and incantatory matter of our archive. It’s the year in which poet Henry Dumas was killed by a New York Transit Authority Officer, the year in which we began keeping a closer eye on our data […]

Subscribe to Feed-Pod & check out the new Feedpod Tumblr of greatness. In the summer 1970, reeds master Rahsaan Roland Kirk founded the Jazz and Peoples Movement in order to promote the visibility of the artform on mainstream television. Jazz musicians wanted to re-assert the dignity of their work to the very powers that threatened that dignity— […]

Subscribe to Feed-Pod And then in November of 1973 a fiendishly anonymous trumpeter who called himself the Country Preacher started making headlines all over the South. Rumours of what was called a ‘Vertigo of the Infinite’ that he conjured with his words and ‘preachments,’ piled one atop the other like bandits trying to breach the […]

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