The Last Poets: Responding to the Response. By Khalil Amani Let’s get one thang straight! Unless you’re Jesus, Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King (and maybe a few others), no one is above getting put ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Last Poets, the NYC spoken word icons who are generally considered the Grandfathers of Hip Hop. Dormant for some time, core members, Abiodun Oyowele and ...

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The Last Poets have a storied history. Since their founding in 1968, the group's proto-rap poetics have gone on to be sampled by and influence everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Digable Planets to ...

The title alone, Up South In Akron: Summer 1959, is enough to stoke the flames of curiosity: How can Akron — a modest Ohio metropolis up north known as the “Rubber Capital of the World” — be “Up South ...

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, Smoke the Mic is featuring poet and lyricist Umar Bin Hassan this Monday night. As the tale goes, Bin Hassan sold his sister’s record player to buy a bus ...

The very last great moment in all of ancient literature comes as a surprise twist—a single line of Latin poetry that transforms a bawdy comic scene into a strange, tragic vision of the end of the ...