#defpoetryjam

[tikibee2]

💯💯 Dead Prez sums it Up #defpoetryjam #deadprez #politricks #hiphop

[ifyxpressions]

Feeling really thankful to have attended Def Poetry Jam's Reunion Concert at Jamaica Performing Arts Center last night. The great poet, teacher, and founding member of The Last Poets, Abiodun Oyewole, is pictured in the photo ♥️🖤💚. Thank you @dannysimmonsjr and @jamaicaartscenter 🙌🏾. #defpoetryjam #jamaicaqueens #newyorkcity (at Jamaica Performing Arts Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6Ndgbl8th/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[therealbornfree]

#therealbornfree #geniusiscommon #brucegeorge #defpoetryjam #rapsnacks https://www.instagram.com/p/CCt7eooFMXWblPfYUFI_dN2E-d425mwZiIQyds0/?igshid=q00cnocjwrtr

[j-ivy]

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On Saturday 50 of the world’s most incredible #poets came together for an amazing cause and I had the honor of kicking it off. Much Love to @jessicacaremoor @thelegendaryblackice @unclerush @ras.baraka6 @brucegeorgemedia @dannysimmonsjr & the entire #DefPoetry Fam!! Love Y’all!! #defpoetryjam #poet #poetry #spokenword #BeCool https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqWz5vHYZY/?igshid=l6jnhw7piya7

[lovedripdrop]

From watching Def Poetry and wishing to being on Def Poetry! I’m so grateful for this moment & grateful for everyone that shared it with me! #defpoetryjam #defpoetry #embracenewark #newarkisstill #newarknj #haiku #haikupoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlSws0lRwi/?igshid=1fhj4gtgzjysz

[j-ivy]

“WE’RE BACK!” #Repost @jessicacaremoor ・・・ Join poets from around the country as we come together to lift up the City of Newark and Mayor @rasjbaraka #covid19 #relief We are also raising money for a national fund for creatives. Tune in Saturday night!!! 7pm EST @jessicacaremoor @malcolmjamalwar @urucker @thelegendaryblackice @j_ivy @rogerbonair @lizagarza @bloombarbfant @bradwalrond @dannysimmonsjr & more!!! #defpoetryjam #defpoet #poet #poets #spokenword https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdlGOCncJo/?igshid=1n85kkwhnpql4

[lowrettaduhvyne]

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/05/def-poetry-jam-show-starring-jill-scott-ras-baraka-to-benefit-newark-covid-19-frontline-workers.html

‘Def Poetry Jam’ show starring Jill Scott, Ras Baraka to benefit Newark, COVID-19 frontline workers

The event acts as a reunion for the HBO series.

[rememberebonyjanice]

This morning I was looking at this photo and 3 women came to my mind: @sotamblue, @judyholiday @jaha0903 ---- These are three women that have shaped my world. ---- I became friends with some of my best friends on the planet because of Tamara Shanice Blue. I was a fan of her #ThickChicks poem on #DefPoetryJam and I found her on Myspace and we became fast "Myspace Friends" because of our Jesus Love, our Middle names both sounding like Peace, and well... because we were #blackgirlmagic before it was a hashtag. ---- Once I become friends with Tamara Blue I was introduced to a world of free girls and free women that I never knew existed. Eboni Bragg being one of them. Eboni is the free girlfriend that tv shows WISH they could properly cite. She is funny and beautiful and creative and I think she is the first girl I know to actually do whatever she wanted to do - period! ---- A few years later, Jaha Zainabu LITERALLY saved my life. I was 27 seconds from being a stranger and she let me come live with her for about 7 months because as a young, broke, 20ish something that was losing everything short of my mind but including my man (😂) she refused to let me be homeless in Atlanta, Georgia and invited me into her home. Her walls were murals and her ingenuity and magic was 15 years ahead of where we currently are now. I literally would not be who I am today if it were not for Jaha Zainabu. Period. ---- Often when we talk about the women who have shaped our world we have to reach 100's of years into ancestry or even half a lifetime ago into our elders but we rarely get the chance to credit our contemporaries and our peers for the ways they helped to give us language for the kind of free women we want to be. Today, I honor TamaraBlue, Eboni Bragg and Jaha Zainabu for being the kind of free women I didn't know was possible to be. Thank you. ---- I'd love for you to tag (or name the person) that contributed to your liberation journey and thank them for the ways they've added to your life #TheFreePeopleProject. ---- We’re still going LIVE on March 29th, April 5th, and April 7th with my #WomanismIsToFeminism lecture. Get your tickets at www.ebonyjanice.com/womanismlecture (at Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-HkuCppIu6/?igshid=hjw0tnh0a1wk