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draws on the name recognition, strength, and legacies of historical, cross-disciplinary Black figures to create personalized songs that apply to multitudinous Black experience. Though she's become more well-known for her music, which fuses experimental Black jazz with modern soul and hip-hop, Woods works to this day as an educator in her hometown, teaching poetry and literature to the next generation of Chicago youth at Young Chicago Authors.
Dancers Chatal' Ashante Hill of Hiplet and Po'Chop delivered fluid choreography to on-screen interludes of Nikki Giovanni performing"Ego Trippin" and that aforementioned Kitt video. Guest performers Jasminfire and theMIND accompanied Woods during"Sun Ra.
Through this project I realized that I do love history. Of course my ancestors are connected to history, but in school, my understanding of history was similar to the way I didn't know I loved poetry, until I found these spaces of people of color teaching people of color. I think that it's a crime that I didn't learn about Zora Neale Hurston in high school or anything like that — that I didn't learn about Baldwin until college.The album definitely presents a range of influences.
"If we're going to have these people in the room, Betty is going to speak first, and Miles is going to wait."Who were some early mentors or influences who really taught you what you know now?
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