Summary
Mos Def opens the show with a reading from Langston Hughes' "Harlem Sweeties."
Steve Coleman performs "I Wanna Hear a Poem."
Georgia Me performs "Full Figured Potential," a self-described fat girl's blues about the ridicule she faces because of her weight and a call to pay more attention to inner beauty.
Vanessa Hidary performs a piece about being a cultural bandit.
Lemon performs "Shine the Stoker," the legend of the stoker on the Titanic who swam his way to safety in Harlem.
Nikki Giovanni reads "Shoulders are for Emergencies Only," which begins, "Talk to me poem, I'm all alone."
Black Ice performs.
Suheir Hammad reads a revision of "First Writing Since," about being an Arab New Yorker in the aftermath of 9/11.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Yasiin Bey Russell Simmons Lemon Andersen Black Ice
Genres : Music Documentary
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Filming locations : Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production companies : Home Box Office (HBO) Simmons-Lathan Media Group
Summary
Mos Def opens the show with a reading from Langston Hughes' "Harlem Sweeties."
Steve Coleman performs "I Wanna Hear a Poem."
Georgia Me performs "Full Figured Potential," a self-described fat girl's blues about the ridicule she faces because of her weight and a call to pay more attention to inner beauty.
Vanessa Hidary performs a piece about being a cultural bandit.
Lemon performs "Shine the Stoker," the legend of the stoker on the Titanic who swam his way to safety in Harlem.
Nikki Giovanni reads "Shoulders are for Emergencies Only," which begins, "Talk to me poem, I'm all alone."
Black Ice performs.
Suheir Hammad reads a revision of "First Writing Since," about being an Arab New Yorker in the aftermath of 9/11.
Genres : Music Documentary
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Filming locations : Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Production companies : Home Box Office (HBO) Simmons-Lathan Media Group
