Colneth Smiley Jr. of the Boston Herald ran a piece last week about the Last Poets and their historic show in Boston Juneteenth: The revolution will be lyricized. Tomorrow night, iconic spoken word and musical group the Last Poets will perform at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury. The event honors June-teenth — an African-American holiday that …
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Bridgit Brown did a write up for WGBH Arts about the Last Poets Juneteenth Show: No discussion about the history of Rap or even about the history of contemporary Spoken Word is complete without mentioning The Last Poets. On June 16th, Abiodun Oyewole, Babatunde Don Eaton, and Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets will …
Last Wednesday Scope fam Jamarhl Crawford of the Blackstonian linked with Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan of the legendary Last Poets to talk about the group’s history and formation, the origin and inspiration for some of their best known poems, their relationship with the late Gil Scott-Heron and some of their current work and …