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Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

Poet Blackman Preach

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic Black Fusion, a writers' workshop that provides access and opportunities to poets of African Ancestry living in Central New York. He is also the co-founder of Voices Merging, a student-run poetry organization (spoken word) at the University of Minnesota that provides a social outlet for undergraduate students to develop as writers, network and express themselves on stage. He has been writing poetry for 14 years and is published in the Ethnic Student Center's Newsletter at Western Washington University, The Spokesman Recorder, and St. Cloud Times. Click here to contact Blackman Preach.

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Hip Hop Framed – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

Hip Hop Framed Hip-Hop images captured & stilled for the worlds view their mug shots are a center piece portrait —with most rappers thinking— the snitch framed them reading exclusive interviews some writers have created a moral panic on their client’s profiled in magazines asking: are rappers the target? is the justice system fair? behind…

Hip Hop Framed Hip-Hop images captured & stilled for the worlds view their mug shots are a center piece portrait —with most rappers thinking— the snitch…

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Invasion: Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

Invasion 45 seconds to pronounce the real deal- DEAL mass destruction by hands HAND? many hand steering airborne cancers that kills Killed Dorothy to LUNG CANCER? and she didn’t smoke I guess Miss Evers great-great-grand children carried my mother’s-mother to the land mill in Mississippi it airborne fumes & rich crude oil Is that all…

Invasion 45 seconds to pronounce the real deal- DEAL mass destruction by hands HAND? many hand steering airborne cancers that kills Killed Dorothy to LUNG CANCER?…

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Clergy Killers – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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Uneven – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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Look How Long – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

CONGRATULATION London Ladd! Please support a friend of Blackman Preach, London Ladd, who is the illustrator of my album cover Bumpy Tymes, London Ladd is an illustrator from Syracuse, New York and has partnered with veteran author Christine King Farris for his debut children’s book March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed The World…

CONGRATULATION London Ladd! Please support a friend of Blackman Preach, London Ladd, who is the illustrator of my album cover Bumpy Tymes, London Ladd is an…

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Am I African Enough? – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

The current issue is always free to everyone On this poem Blackman Preace collaborated with poet Erica Hawthorne and it is a part of the chapbook collection. Am I African Enough? By Cedric Bolton and Erica Hawthorne As I stood under the goodnight moon POSITIONED absorbing the sounds of the African drums as the elders…

The current issue is always free to everyone On this poem Blackman Preace collaborated with poet Erica Hawthorne and it is a part of the chapbook…

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Hope – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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Building Me A Home – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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Wisdom – Poetic Black Fusion

By Poet Blackman Preach Spoken Word Columnist (includes MP3 audio)

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedric received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Washington University and currently resides, with his wife, in Syracuse, New York. He is the Founder of Poetic…

BlackCommentator.com Spoken Word Columnist, Poet Blackman Preach (Cedric T. Bolton), is a poet (spoken word artist) and producer, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and raised in Paterson,…

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