Sai Wurd
“Not my monkeys, not my circus.”
my Aunt Barbara.
my momma’s best friend since 9th grade, and her guardian angel since 2014.
patron saint of cute shoes, betty boop and the refusal to take anybody’s shit.
Karen Ladson
“Ignore the ignorant, and the ignorance will fade”
“Find somebody you love, who loves you.”
Karen Ladson is a poet, performer, curator and youth mentor who takes great pride in using art to empower disenfranchised and underrepresented writers.
Maia Crown Williams
“Don’t worry bout the mule goin’ blind,… just hold the line.”
Maia Williams, also known as “Crown”, is executive assistant to many different businesses, artists, and events in the Metro Detroit area,as well as across the United States and abroad. Crown is also CEO and founder of Amonyet Enterprises, Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts (MECCAcon), Cooking Ciphers, The Cutaway, Black Speculative Arts Movement (co.founder), and Crown’s Royalties. AMONYET ENTERPRISES is an executive assistant, event coordinating, and mass promotion company. Small Businesses, Events, Marketing, Authors, Musicians, Spoken Word/Poets, Artists, and more. “My main objective of everything i do is to strengthen, build, protect, and grow. I instill those in each and every business, event, and project that i sign my name next to. Our people will only rise when we learn to stand up. In order for our community to grow, we must BE a community.” Executive Assistant, Event Coordinator, Comic-Con organizer, Chef, Jeweler, and more, she is a ‘sistah’ with many crowns, and takes the size and fit of each one seriously.
Ryan Pearson
“Know when to hold and fold” (know when it’s time to open your mouth and when it’s best to keep quiet) “A hard head makes a soft ass” Me: it’s not fair! Mommy: “I never told you life was gonna be fair, now figure out what’s next” “Love comes from God. Don’t …
Rasheed Copeland
One Good Lung There, in a humble polis of copper skinned folk I watched a pair of old fools forge a bond in chain smoke. This was in the nadir of a nationwide exiling that banished all the other men from their houses and replaced them with a government stipend. Somehow, by either …
Grover Easterling & Pops
Quote from pops: “Do what you love but learn how to teach it too”
Grover D Easterling III is a poet and revolutionary currently living in Detroit, Michigan.
Denise Ervin
Game On “The game is on.” The phrasing is ambiguous. Basketball, baseball, hockey… the format matters less than the words; my father’s feeble attempt to find masculinity in his baby girl, to connect with the son he never had in the daughter that always wanted to please him. This is what love sounds like: …
Ambreia Stephens
“We were so excited for Ambreia’s work, Wusgood decided to give the world a taste. Learn more about Ambreia or request art for bae as a Valentines gift by clicking this hashtag #supportblackbusiness.”
BLACK in EGYPT/CANADA
This Skin by Mona Mousa i spent years denying the Nile as home years trying to wash the Egyptian out of my skin trying to straighten the Nubian out of my tangled ancestry leaving my forced Sudanese lineage spread out like ash on these too hot sands my mothers eyes said to me …