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Ishmael Reed's article in The Nation from June 4, 2014 has only become more relevant after the events in Ferguson, MO and the media's response. Reed tackles the question: "Do white pundits, reporters and TV producers have a no-snitch policy on exposing crises in the white community?" To read the article, click here.
An article by Ishamel Reed titled "Bad Apples in Ferguson" was featured on August 29-31, 2014 of the The Weekend Edition of counterpunch.
Author Jamaica Kincaid and film critic Armond White are among the winners of the 35th annual American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism and free expression.
The Before Columbus Foundation announced Tuesday that Kincaid was cited for the novel "See Now Then." Other winners include Andrew Bacevich's nonfiction "Breach of Trust" and Alex Espinoza's novel "The Five Acts of Diego Leon." The awards will be presented Oct. 26 in San Francisco.
Three poets with Buffalo connections who have gone on to international acclaim highlighted a four-day festival in April in the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
The dozens of poetry-related readings, performances and screenings, collectively dubbed “Words” and timed to coincide with National Poetry Month, explored Buffalo’s wide-ranging contributions to the international poetry and literary worlds.
Tokyo Flower Children present an important poetry event at the San Francisco Jazz Center on Saturday, June 28th, where poet laureate Ishmael Reed will be honored and celebrated by peers and readers alike. This tribute includes readings by poets and writers: Tennessee Reed, Genny Lim, Yuri Kageyama, along with her Tokyo-based band Yuricane (including Hirokazu Suyama, Hiroshi Tokieda and Yuuichiro Ishii).
Ishmael Reed, founder of the Before Columbus Foundation and author of over twenty titles, talks with Philip Maldari on the July 6th segment of The Sunday Show about California's prison system. For the full radio segment, click here. For a more in-depth interview with Reed in the San Francisco Bay View about California's prison system, click here.
Author Ishmael Reed offers career advice to aspiring writers. For the video, click here.
Ishmael Reed participated on the panel “Maintaining Cultural Legacies: The Black Arts and Umbra Movements” as part of the 12th National Black Writers Conference, which took place from March 27-30, 2014 in New York City. Panelists talked about how to define Black literature and Black literary classics, and how the traditions of the Black Arts Movement and the Umbra Movement influenced the Black literary tradition. To watch the video, click here.
The festival, curated by SFJazz Poet Laureate Ishmael Reed, pairs poetry with jazz, and each evening is split into two shows spotlighting different ethnicities. Ishmael Reed has assembled lineups showcasing black, Latino, Jewish, LGBT, Native American, Irish American, Italian American and Asian American artists.For more information about the event, click here.
This summer, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents the traveling exhibition "Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist," the first retrospective of the artist’s paintings in two decades. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, featuring critical texts by poet/essayist/novelist Ishmael Reed.
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