#tbt
That time I won Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards (I’m also holding the trophy for Album of the Year that I received for my double LP, “Fate by the Throat”).
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Honored to be a UN Women #HeForShe Advocate.
#JusticeForMikeBrown
“There are reasons why white gun’s rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children’s toys.”
Read Greg Howard’s powerful, important piece HERE
I just signed a petition demanding that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate the killing of Michael Brown. Click HERE to do the same.
The Apollo Theater, last night.
To stand a few feet from Gloria Steinem and perform a poem for a packed Apollo Theater – last night was one of those moments I needed to pinch myself. What an incredible launch event for UN Women‘s#Beijing20.
