DANCING (& POETRY) IN BLACKNESS WITH HALIFU OSUMARE AND NTOZAKE SHANGE

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While on tour with her new book, “Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir”, Halifu Osumare and Ntozake Shange with her newest publication “Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems” joined us in studio in what turned out to be an amazing conversation of a lifetime about life, friendship and ideas. Guests: Halifu Osumare, scholar and Professor Emerita in the Department of African American and African Studies at University of California, Davis. Ntozake Shange, poet, novelist, playwright and cultural activist. Host: Wuyi Jacobs. Credits: Institute For Religion, Culture & Public Life at Columbia University with Carol Marie Webster, PhD Roosvelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College of New York City Donald Sutton, Global Artist Management, NYC Shakespeare & Co. Bookseller NYC HUNTER COLLEGE, the City University of New York -Department of Women and Gender Studies -English Department -Dance Department -Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program -Department of Africana & Puerto Rican Studies Music: Pharaoh Sanders: (1) The Creator has a master plan (2) Highlife. Live broadcast WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC Pacifica Radio / The Positive Mind Studios: May 17, 2018. #AfrobeatRadio