Poet Blackman Preach

The current issue is always free to everyone This recording was a part of the “State of the Ghetto Address” and dedicated to Brother Malcolm X at Western Washington University. Students created a day of celebration on May 19, 2000. Blackman Preach was honored to be a student on the original committee that organized the…

The current issue is always free to everyone KILLING THE MESSENGERS They’re killing the messengers… Who’s killing the messenger? They are them ova there… They’re killing the messenger… Who’s killing the messenger? The policy makers—“sitting up on capitol hill” but I’m a bill designed to blowout the backs of the blue collar N-E-GRO catering three…

The current issue is always free to everyone Stray bullets still ring out around South Minneapolis the 34th block & Chicago— as the Fall season stands still for Tyesha— Tyesha Edwards the intellectual they’re killing our messengers in who’s time there was no time as tears pierce the blue siding where the sobbing will never…

The current issue is always free to everyone I saw coffins as I lie on the backbone of a flat-bed pick-up scared to hell for denying Christ in the darkness of my night while the trumpet sounds of sirens where loud—everybody was aware of the road-rage cops on Winston’s tail. I saw coffins as I…

The current issue is always free to everyone It should be the loudest movement of all times of all times OF ALL TIMES Black, coloreds, negroes, Africans in America—Africans WHATEVER you may be when you tune into—no news station, radio or whatever medium you visit this day— the address will not be televised for static…

The current issue is always free to everyone The revolution is a plow digging six feet deep with the splinters of its’ handles caving to the bone of the people resisting the storm is raging & blows out the night on the wick of the candle— the rain is coming fire is hard to come…

The current issue is always free to everyone 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…

The current issue is always free to everyone Death March It’s on all over the world— at the Louisiana Superdome the death march has been initiated for a total excavation of Black people even if you are in denial—the evidence is not living proof read up on Sudan, Chicago, Rwanda, Minneapolis, Somalia— Camden places where…

The current issue is always free to everyone Camden residence are dying a fast death billed as the worst— living in hell are families, media reports but what’s getting priority, is not priority and the rumors, the rumors of the murder rate— Is it really ten times the national average? kids acquiring illegal weapons and…