Let’s Win A Grammy! Spoken Word and The Recording Academy, With Faylita Hicks & Torch Literary Arts
That time I attended a spoken word Grammy workshop.
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The Paper Cup: Mind The Construction Lines (Part 3)
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the Narrative Device exercise and give it some movement with action and suspense.
Dark is Not A Feeling
if Dina had simply condemned herself to an eternal “dark” place away from the light of her prince and others, without changing her skin color, would we have cornered the racism in that idea?
The Paper Cup: Make it Clear (Part 4)
Let’s look at how audience was put into our micro story about a paper cup based on what is explained versus what is understood.
ADF Basics: How to Write A Story About A Paper Cup
The idea behind this exercise is that an ideas doesn’t make a good story, craft makes a good story, and a writer should be able to move a reader with a story about anything—even a paper cup!
African Dramatic Form (ADF): An Introduction
Using ADF for story development can help writers avoid “borrowing” anti-Blackness from non-African languages, allowing them to make their stories more empathetic, more meaningful, and more “Black.”
Support the UVI Rise Relief Fund – Stand for USVI Hurricane Relief
I had the opportunity to speak with Rep. Raúl Grijalva…[who] suggested that the matter [of hurricane relief for U.S. Virgin Islands] rests with Black local and national leadership raising the profile of the USVI issue.