The Life We Chose | An Interview with Queena Bergen
Poet and software developer from N.J., Queena Bergen joins Words Beats & Life Inc.'s inaugural fellowship, Towards 2040. In collaboration with our mentors, Bergen will design a virtual reality software, an experience where poets and artists can virtually perform their work and interact with other creatives.
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.
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).
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…
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.
Words Beats & (my) Life Part IV
It is important to know that community much like success can not just happen in a vacuum.