Toshi Reagon Presents GOOD FOLK - Black History Month Celebratio

Toshi Reagon Presents GOOD FOLK - Black History Month Celebration w/ Sonia Sanchez, Stephanie McKay & Imani Uzuri

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TOSHI REAGON PRESENTS - Good Folk (Winter)- a seasonal artistic - collaboration. The Artist involved are powerful, and brilliant. Each person is planted in the present with a knowledge of where they came from. Each person carries that line with them, changes it and springs it forward. Enjoy this conversation between these unique voices that some how move together in the world.

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“…resurrecting the passion and pride of politically conscious and eternally lovelorn ladies of late-1960s, early 1970s soul…McKay shines bright.”
-The Guardian

Stephanie McKay is a singer, songwriter and master performer & is one of the most in-demand voices on the scene today. Hailing from the Bronx NYC, her list of credits is long and impressive and reads like a "who's who" of the hip-hop/soul scene. Formerly a guitarist for Kelis, she has recorded two albums with the Brooklyn Funk Essentials, collaborated with Talib Kweli and Mos Def, featured on the standout hit Forget Regret from Roy Hargrove’s Grammy-nominated RH Factor (alongside such luminaries as D’Angelo, Anthony Hamilton, Erykah Badu, Karl Denson, Pino Palladino, and Common) and completed a world tour with Amp Fiddler from the legendary Parliament Funkadelic.

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Sonia Sanchez, Poet. Mother. Professor. National and International lecturer on Black Culture and Literature, Women’s Liberation, Peace and Racial Justice. Sponsor of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Board Member of MADRE. Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 16 books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, Love Poems, I’ve Been a Woman, A Sound Investment and Other Stories, Homegirls and Handgrenades. Ms. Sanchez was recently named Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer she says, "People are saying, 'This makes sense, because people have been calling you the unofficial poet laureate for years,' " Sanchez said. "And I say, 'Well, the people are always way ahead of the government.'