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Sundiata, Sekou 1948–2007
Poet, performance artist, playwright, musician
Sekou Sundiata first came to nationwide attention when he was featured on the opening program of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, hosted by Bill Moyers.
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A professor of literature and creative writing at New York's New School, Sundiata created and performed critically acclaimed theater pieces incorporating poetry, dance, drama, and music. Deeply rooted in the black American experience, over the years his voice evolved from anger and outrage to hope and grace.
His work has been compared to that of Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron, and the Last Poets, and he provided a link between the Black Arts/Black Aesthetic Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spoken-word artists of the early twenty-first century.
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Sekou Sundiata was born Robert Franklin Feaster on August 22, 1948, and raised in the housing projects of East