We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll hear from Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Gil Scott-Heron, and many more!
The Nightfly #2015.15 Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" Blackalicious "Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni" Margaret Walker "For My People" Reuben Wilson "Inner City Blues" The Last Poets with Bernard Purdie "Blessed Are Those Who Struggle" Ballad Of Birmingham "Jerry Moore" Claude McKay "If We Must Die" Yusef Lateef "Russell And Eliot" Arrested Development "Freedom" Cassandra Wilson "Strange Fruit" Countee Cullen "Heritage" Miles Davis "Once Upon A Summertime" Maya Angelou "Africa" Kim Weston "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" Langston Hughes "I Too" Eddie Harris "1974 Blues" Peabody & Sherman "They've Always Known" Gil Scott-Heron "Whitey On The Moon" Nina Simone "Backlash Blues" Nikki Giovanni "Beautiful Black Men" Harlem Underground Band "Fed Up (Instrumental)" Hour 2 Sweet Honey In the Rock "On Children" Nikki Giovanni & The New York Community Choir "Like a Ripple on a Pond" Sterling Brown "Ma Rainey" Bobby Broom "D's Blues" Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five "I Am Somebody" Oscar Brown Jr "40 Acres and a Mule" Arna Bontemps "The Daybreakers" Horace Silver "Doodlin'" Gwendolyn Brooks "Song of the Front Yard" Duke Ellington "C Jam Blues" A Tribe Called Quest "After Hours" Intelligent Hoodlum "Black and Proud" Jasmine Mans "Birmingham" Nikki Giovanni "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" Lecrae "Welcome to America" Sonia Sanchez "When Ure Heart Turns Cold" Brand Nubian "Love Vs. Hate" Lauryn Hill "Final Hour" Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party"