Melanin Mind & Soul Reviews

Melanin Mind & Soul Reviews

  It’s always lovely to be featured on another platform. I will be treading a different stage next month, performing at Khembe’s Return to Your Roots event in Birmingham. Khembe is a hardworking, inspirational and hugely talented lady. The tenacity...

May poem: It’s dark outside

Bass music burns a fire in his soul drives darkness from salvation’s burning hole pulsing blood in reckless veins lonely beast escapes concrete cage. Music louder senses turned to low directionless wheels nowhere safe to go. Target slowly coming into view knife...
Return to your Roots 2018

Return to your Roots 2018

Return to your Roots? If you haven’t experienced it, you better look sharp and get your tickets as it’s only four weeks away! Return to your Roots is delicious mix of natural hair workshops, with the fan-tab-u-lous Mz. Lady Lox from Atlanta, featured in...

The Living Legend Initiative Project

Sometimes strange and beautiful things happen when you open yourself up to them. I popped into Brixton to see my books on the shelf in the Black Cultural Archive’s bookshop, only to meet lots of lovely people who were keen to find out more about Songs of My...
Black Cultural Archives

Black Cultural Archives

Some days just need to be recorded. Today was one of them, the day my book went on the shelves at the Black Cultural Archives bookshop. Oh yeah. Books on a shelf. In a shop. I will never forget the journey it took to get here. The many patient hours of writing,...

The more, the Maya

‘Describe impact of her words?/her work to my life../feelings of her readings!/lumps of unspoken words swelling my throat/her words articulated delivered/pricked my mind’s unformed ideas/shook establishment from complacent chairs/held steady eyes of...