Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution
Written by Natasha Marin
Narrated by Gin Hammond and Chinua Hawk
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About this audiobook
Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices.
- When do you feel most indigenous?
- What does it sound like when you claim yourself?
- When do you feel most powerful?
Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere.
Natasha Marin
Natasha Marin is the curator of Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (McSweeney's, 2020). Marin is also a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe since 2012 and have been recognized and acknowledged by Art Forum, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, NBC, Al Jazeera, Vice, PBS and others. In 2018, the City of Seattle and King County have backed BLACK IMAGINATION-- a series of conceptual exhibitions—amplifying, centering, and holding sacred a diverse sample of voices including LGBTQIA+ black youth, incarcerated black women, black folks with disabilities, unsheltered black folks, and black children. Her viral web-based project, Reparations, engaged a quarter of a million people worldwide in the practice of leveraging privilege,"" and earned Marin, a mother of two, death threats by the dozens. Find out more about her work online: Black-Imagination.com.""
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Natasha Marin has created a collection of voices speaking the hearths and thoughts connected to those voices. Emotionally moving, truth telling, challenging, relatable, and thought provoking.
If only every person on this planet could hear this book in their own language…
Might we be become blessed to live in a better world? In Peace, with respect for each other.