Kevin Powell
VA, US
Political Activist/Writer/Leading Voice of Generation X
Kevin Powell is a poet, journalist, essayist, editor, cultural curator, hiphop historian, public speaker, political consultant and fundraiser, businessman, and community activist. He was also an original cast member on the first season of MTV's hugely popular show '?The Real World.'- A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Kevin Powell is now a resident of Brooklyn, New York. It is from his base in New York City that Kevin Powell has published six books, including his most recent, Who's Gonna Take The Weight Manhood, Race, and Power in America, which is an Essence magazine bestseller. Powell's next project, Someday We'll All Be Free, will be published in the Fall 2005 and will feature essays on American democracy, American leadership, and the American dream. Additionally, Powell is compiling his second volume of poetry, My Own Private Ghetto, and The Kevin Powell Reader. Indeed, Powell has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews over the past two decades for publications such as Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Code, Rolling Stone, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a founding staff member and worked as a senior writer. A highly sought after lecturer and commentator, Kevin Powell has offered his insights on a variety of social issues, as well as on hiphop and pop culture, to numerous TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet outlets in America, and internationally, and he has spoken at colleges and universities, prisons and community centers, as well as at churches, conferences, and forums throughout the nation and abroad. Powell is currently producing a series of townhall meetings across America called the State of Black Men Tour, which will visit approximately 20 cities by December 2005; and his future political plans include either a run for political office in 2006, in New York City, or launching a new national organization geared toward the empowerment of young people. Of his life work Kevin Powell says, simply, "My life-calling is to be a servant for the people, period. Money, fame, status, personal achievements, and all that means very little to me when pain and suffering are still real on this planet. I am interested in the powerless becoming powerful." Programs: -State of Black Men in America -The State of Hip-Hop Culture -State of Black America -Dr. King, Civil Rights, and the Hip-Hop Generation -History is a People's Memory: The Importance of Black History Month
Kevin Powell is a poet, journalist, essayist, editor, cultural curator, hiphop historian, public speaker, political consultant and fundraiser, businessman, and community activist. He was also an original cast member on the first season of MTV's hugely popular show '?The Real World.'- A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Kevin Powell is now a resident of Brooklyn, New York. It is from his base in New York City that Kevin Powell has published six books, including his most recent, Who's Gonna Take The Weight Manhood, Race, and Power in America, which is an Essence magazine bestseller. Powell's next project, Someday We'll All Be Free, will be published in the Fall 2005 and will feature essays on American democracy, American leadership, and the American dream. Additionally, Powell is compiling his second volume of poetry, My Own Private Ghetto, and The Kevin Powell Reader. Indeed, Powell has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews over the past two decades for publications such as Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Code, Rolling Stone, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a founding staff member and worked as a senior writer. A highly sought after lecturer and commentator, Kevin Powell has offered his insights on a variety of social issues, as well as on hiphop and pop culture, to numerous TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet outlets in America, and internationally, and he has spoken at colleges and universities, prisons and community centers, as well as at churches, conferences, and forums throughout the nation and abroad. Powell is currently producing a series of townhall meetings across America called the State of Black Men Tour, which will visit approximately 20 cities by December 2005; and his future political plans include either a run for political office in 2006, in New York City, or launching a new national organization geared toward the empowerment of young people. Of his life work Kevin Powell says, simply, "My life-calling is to be a servant for the people, period. Money, fame, status, personal achievements, and all that means very little to me when pain and suffering are still real on this planet. I am interested in the powerless becoming powerful." Programs: -State of Black Men in America -The State of Hip-Hop Culture -State of Black America -Dr. King, Civil Rights, and the Hip-Hop Generation -History is a People's Memory: The Importance of Black History Month
2010