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For The Love Of Dust

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A Fading Light

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I Found A New Light In A Small Wooden Box Accompanied A Voice Filled With Grace

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Gritty Global Bass w/ D.Painter

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The impact of “cancel culture” on art

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Thoughts from the last protest I will attend

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Words Beats & (My) Life Part VIII

In the end, all this work brings me back to where I started, working to build community among people that the larger society seeks to divide along class, race and economic standing, working through hip-hop to build bridges and community.

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Words Beats & (My) Life part VII: The Hustle

For the last two years the Creative Core has operated as a workforce development initiative in the Words Beats & Life Academy. The Core was created as a way to engage our most advanced arts students in paid performance opportunities in the District and beyond.

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Words Beats & (My) Life part VI: The Embassy of Hip-Hop

Over the last five years we have been able to share our learning to engage young people in Africa (Senegal, Uganda and South Africa), Asia (Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and South Korea), Europe (Brussels, England, France), and South America (Brazil).

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Words Beats & (My) Life Part V: The Cipher

The concept of a cipher in hip-hop comes from the Arabic word, Sifrs, which is the number zero. It’s a circle in which competition usually takes place between either dancers or MC’s. We have worked to redefine this concept…

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Footsteps in the Dark: An interview with Asad Ali Jafri

Since I can remember I wanted to be a dancer, and since then my mother said no to that idea. See, growing up a Black Muslim girl dance is very much a part of Black culture and not very big in Muslim cultures or, so I thought.

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Interview with “Footsteps in the Dark” Artistic Director Amirah Sackett

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Words Beats & (my) Life Part IV

It is important to know that community much like success can not just happen in a vacuum.

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Words Beats & (My) Life cont’d Part III

Hip-Hop is a community survival strategy created as a response to attacks upon the creativity, health and wellbeing of NYC Public school children and families.

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Words Beats & (My) Life cont’d Part II

The people that were my mentors were all keepers of culture.

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Words Beats & (My) Life

After 17 years of leading what began as a university student groups project…