My first meeting of Ntozake Shange was the morning of May 17, 2018 when she arrived at the west 57 street recording studio in New York City. As part of Afrobeat Radio’s media hosting of Halifu Osumare’s Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir book tour, Shange and Osumare were scheduled for an interview with Afrobeat Radio […]
August to December, 2018, I produced the Critical Joy Series that airs every through 2018, Wednesday 10:00pm -12:00am on Afrobeat Radio with host Wuyi Jacobs. On every third Wednesday Afrobeat Radio hosts the Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning workshops at Brooklyn Commons:
Join the final AfroBeat Radio Critical Joy (Third-Wednesday) Series of 2018 December 19, 2018 (Dance Class – 7:00 – 8:30/ CJ Workshop – 8:30 – 10:00/Music & Dance – 10:00 – Midnight) Register Location: Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
The podcast is here! It’s the Arthur Mitchell, founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH), Tribute aired Wednesday, September 26, 2018 on AfroBeat Radio. Now you can listen to an edited version of the Tribute. Enjoy as DTH’s Artistic Director, Virginia Johnson and former dancers Karen Brown, Dr. Adesola Akinleyke, Dion Wilson, and Lorraine Grave […]
I am pleased to have produced the interview with GirlTrek Founders T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison with AfroBeat Radio Host, Wuyi Jacobs as part of the Critical Joy Series. GirlTrek aims to have Black women walkers “1 Million strong by 2020.” https://anchor.fm/afrobeatradio/embed/episodes/GirlTrek—inspiring-one-million-African-American-women–girls-to-develop-a-daily-habit-of-walking-e2l60c
You are invited to listen to Afrobeat Radio and The Critical Joy Series collaborative Tribute to Ntozake Shange, 10:30pm – 12:00am (EST) November 7, 2018. Join AfroBeat Radio Host Wuyi Jacobs, Critical Joy Series -co-producer – Dr. Carol Marie Webster, and Dr. Halifu Osumare, Professor Emerita African American and African Studies – University of California, Davis and Livelong friend of renowned author and activist Ntozake Shange. The […]
Department of Religion The Talk Institute for Religion, Culture, and Pubic Life (IRCPL) Protests and Pedagogy Conference Keynote Closing Presenter (Workshop): Ecstatic Reasoning – blackness protracted: Joy/Rage IRCPL Presentation (October 2018) and Teachers College of Columbia University (June 2019) where I delivered my paper, God and The Dancer: A Theo-Ethnographic Account
Rest in Peace Ntozake Shange! It was an honor to meet and work with Ntozake Shange this spring in New York City on Halifu Osumare’s Dance in Blackness, A Memoir book tour. Below is the podcast of one of Shange’s last interviews with her good friend Halifu Osumare, and Afrobeat Radio host Wuyi Jacobs.
September 19, 2018 Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning (CJ/ER) – Blackness Protracted Workshop AfroBeat Radio at BROOKLYN COMMONS, 388 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BETWEEN BOND & HOYT STREETS, BROOKLYN, NY 11217 REGISTER at the door. More Information: HERE Though embodied practices that center on African Diasporic (Black) body technologies of reasoning in and through ecstatic joy, CJ/ER […]
