Mastodawn

Literature and culture are tools for liberation. #AmiriBaraka

Film Review: THE DUTCHMAN (2025): Andre Gaines' Film Tackles A Lot of Powerful Issues in a Stylish and Mostly Effective Manner

Link: https://film-book.com/film-review-the-dutchman-2025-andre-gaines-film-tackles-a-lot-of-powerful-issues-in-a-stylish-and-mostly-effective-manner/?fsp_sid=120375

#AldisHodge #AmiriBaraka #AndreGaines #AndreHolland #BenjaminThys #HyunminRhee #KateMara #KevinTylerRodriguez #LaurenE.Banks #LazarusSimmons #LennyPlatt #MichaelLaurence #MovieReview #NatasjaNaarendorp ...

teledyn 𓂀 Oct 16

For whom does one write?
#amiribaraka #poetry #afrosonics

https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/797594498114977792/afrosonics-but-many-of-us-feel-that-since-we?source=share

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💬 1 🔁 34 ❤️ 73 · Amiri Baraka - And we should even try reading But many of us feel that since we are “Anti-Establishment” that makes us heroes. Nonsense. Most such anti-establishmentarianism is…

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Andi Chorley Jun 19, 2025

Black And Beautiful... Soul And Madness by The Jihad, released on Jihad Productions in 1968.

"Black & Beautiful, Soul & Madness was the first word-music record I did completely devoted to this form. One-piece on a New York Art Quartet side earlier, but Black & Beautiful was recorded at my home and in the small theater my wife, Amina, and I built there The Spirit House (33 Stirling St.) shortly after I had returned home to Newark, NJ, after the implosion of the Harlem based Blacks Arts Repertory Theater-School. Spirit House, like the Black Arts, was created to present Black theater, poetry, music, and political dialogue. we thought of ourselves as cultural workers, revolutionary artists 'pushing the program' as some of our cultural nationalist comrades were wont to say. I think you can feel our excitement and commitment." - Amiri Baraka, September 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGpaVWCAYA

#thejihad #blackrights #leroijones #amiribaraka