The Last Poets Juneteenth Show was written up in the Dorchester Your Town Section: The smooth sounds and righteous lyrics of “The Last Poets,” a direct link to the creators of modern hip-hop and spoken word poetry, will be coming to Roxbury this Saturday. … “The audience can expect to hear some fiery poetry dealing …
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 …
The show we are doing on June 16 just got a great write up in the JP Gazette. On Saturday June 16, 2012 we are bringing The Last Poets to Boston for a Fundraiser show to benefit the Blackstonian and the Feed the Hood / Fill Your Fridge Programs. There will be a Youth / …
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– Last Poets 21+ Show Info – Free Film Screening: “The Last Poets Made in Amerikkka” Info Saturday June 16, 2012 we will be bringing The Last Poets to Boston for a fundraiser show to benefit the Blackstonian and the Fill Your Fridge program. While the main show is 21+, we will have an additional …
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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 …