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Tshombe Sekou is a Force to be Reckoned With

Tshombe Sekou is a poet, spoken-word artist, musician, producer, and thinker based in Yokosuka, Japan. A self‑taught musician–producer, he founded Emet Productions, through which he creates expressive, purpose‑driven art that merges jazz, philosophy, and poetry. Something of a literary alchemist, Tshombe transformed his early fascination with storytelling—starting from making up stories while flipping through magazines—into a form […]

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Surviving The White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll — a must read!

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed […]

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