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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><big><big>Join
Tongo Eisen-Martin to celebrate <br>
the release of his new book of poetry</big></big></b><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">published by Penmanship Books, NY<br>
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</span><big><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With music by
Sake 1<br>
</span></b><b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hosted by
Mahogany Browne<br>
</span></b></big><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><big><b>Guest
performance by Joyce Lee and more</b></big><br>
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background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>
</span><b><big><big><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a
href="x-apple-data-detectors://0"
x-apple-data-detectors="true"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">January 18th, 7-9pm</a><br>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><big><big>African-American Art and
Culture Complex <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1"
x-apple-data-detectors="true"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="address"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">762 Fulton St.</a> (@
Webster St.)</big></big></b><br>
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</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For more information
contact tongo<a href="mailto:tongo.blackfire@gmail.com">.blackfire@gmail.com</a></span>
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<div><i>“ Tongo Eisen-Martin combines the political urgency of the
Black Arts Movement with the razor-sharp lyricism of Golden
Age Hip-Hop…It’s a work that makes beautiful common sense and
reminds us that the personal is indeed political”— </i>AKIBA
SOLOMON, writer, editor</div>
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<div>“<i>Tongo’s ability to speak to the nation’s most ignored
people relies on his sharp wit and honest pedagogy. He
analyzes our very core. With the truth of Detroit Red and the
mind of Malcolm X, Tongo teaches us how to take back what is
inherently ours.” —</i> MAHOGONY L. BROWNE,, poet,
host/curator of Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe, publisher</div>
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<div>“<i>Tongogara </i>(title of first book) <i>is a love letter
to revolution. With integrity, Eisen-Martin gives voice to
those whose lives are ritually overlooked; skillfully leading
us through stories of injustice and redemption, from cell
block to street corner. Here is an unrelenting commentary, a
call to arms, illuminating the work we as a society have left
to do.” </i>—FELICE BELLE, poet, playwright</div>
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<div><i>“Tongo Eisen-Martin. I’m telling you, he changed me…He has
that multi-pronged talent that equals originality: narrative,
musical, language-lustful. He illuminates the dormant
architecture of revolution in your chest. Awakens your burn,
your joy for this thing we call stringing words together in
the name of liberation…Mark these words: he’s one of our
greats.” —</i> TARA HARDY, poet and teacher</div>
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522 Valencia Street
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415 863.9977
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