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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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Commentary

PowerLess – Poetic Black Fusion

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

The current issue is always free to everyone Somebody lied to us, Black men after the doctor slapped in life patriarchal man said, “don’t cry” “be tuff” & what’s real star power, brother? deny the people, gain access and showboat your end-zone dance with twenty – 150,000 dollar cars, flossing with 3 mansions you hardly…

The current issue is always free to everyone Somebody lied to us, Black men after the doctor slapped in life patriarchal man said, “don’t cry” “be…

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Hip-Hop Framed – Poetic Black Fusion

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

The current issue is always free to everyone 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 current issue is always free to everyone Hip-Hop images captured & stilled for the worlds view their mug shots are a center piece portrait —with…

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