Wish You Were Here,” the spoken word performance show featuring Theresa Davis & Jon Goode Returns to 7stages June 25th and 26th! The 25th will be an encore performance of the original show and the 26th will be the staging of a new performance. Special guests include Slam Poet April AP Smith, Slam Poet Gus Wood, Slam Poet Darnell Fine, BET Lyric Cafe’s Cola Rum, BET Lyric Cafe’s Spinxx and HBO Def Poetry/BET Lyric Cafe’s Malik Salaam.

With mega churches more concerned with tax returns than spiritual bankruptcy, absentee parents content on living second childhoods instead of raising competent adults, and ego driven leaders jockeying for a seat at Master’s table, it’s easy to understand why shallow billboard hits are all pretense and no power.

Another benefactor of the post Badu renaissance, D.C. native YahZarah’s live show is a hybrid of Tina Turner’s sensuality and Parliament’s funky freedom.With enough sista girl fire to ignite a new generation of soul mammas, play cousin Phonte and Nicolay of The Foreign Exchange Music give YahZarah the sonic freedom to take her rightful place amongst the greatest soul divas of our day with her upcoming release The Ballad Of Purple Saint James. Peep her new single.

Award winning writer, activist, and counselor Edward M. Garnes, Jr., founder of From Afros To Shelltoes, brings his “Sweet Tea Ethics” to an uncensored documentary film entitled The reMixed Mind: Crossfaders, Visionaries & other Revolutionaries starring Joi Gilliam, stic man( dead prez), Killa Mike, Dionne Farris Jason Orr, Shannon McCollum, Lil John Roberts, Fahamu Pecou, DJ Kemit, Rich Medina, Ndea Davenport, and others.

The City of East Point Cultural
Enrichment Commission Presents Literary Café Saturday, February 27, 3-5 pm Barnes and Noble at Camp Creek 3685 Marketplace Boulevard East Point, GA 30344. Featuring a special book signing by noted author: THE HONORABLE
MARVIN S. ARRINGTON, SR.

In this episode of Sweet Tea Ethics, Ed Garnes, Killer Mike, Dr. Cornel West, Clifton West discuss market forces, hip hop, and why you won’t hear dead prez or Phonte on the radio.