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An Evening with Kevin Powell
Wed., Sept. 12, 2007
6 - 8 p.m.
NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center
1313 Penn Avenue North
Minneapolis
Presented by the African American Men Project and African American
Read-In
For more info: 612.302.4695
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About Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important
voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist
Gloria Steinem proclaims that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and
a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human,
and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Powell is a
political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hiphop historian,
public speaker, and entrepreneur.
A product of extreme poverty, welfare, fatherlessness, and a single
mother-led household, he is a native of Jersey City, New Jersey and
was educated at New Jersey’s Rutgers University. Powell is a longtime
resident of Brooklyn, New York, and it is from his base in New York
City that he has published 7 books, including his current title,
Someday We’ll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press). This new book is a
collection of provocative essays on freedom, democracy, justice, and
race in America, as inspired by Hurricane Katrina, the 2004
presidential election, and September 11th.
Powell is presently at work on a new collection of essays, Letters to
A Young American (2008), and his second volume of poetry, No Sleep
‘Til Brooklyn (2008). Additionally, Powell is at work on his
childhood memoir, homeboy alone, slated for 2010, and The Kevin
Powell Anthology (2011), which will highlight the first twenty-five
years of his literary career. Indeed, Powell has also written
numerous essays, articles, and reviews through the years for
publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence,
Rolling Stone, Ebony, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a
founding staff member and served as a senior writer, interviewing and
profiling, among many others, Colin Powell, and the late Tupac Shakur.
At present, Powell is a Writing Fellow for the Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studies, a Phelps Stokes Fund Senior Fellow
and a 2008 candidate for the United State Congress in Brooklyn, New
York.
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