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Miles & Coltrane Blue (.) Saturday June 27, 2009 McGlohan Theater- NC
26 June 2009 by Mekkah.
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An original stage production brought to you by OnQ Productions in collaboration with The Stephen Gordon Quintet, God City Art Collective, Black Butterfly Productions, Jhe Russell and Randolph Ward.
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New Book & DVD, 2 Shows, 1 Festival
2 September 2008 by Mekkah.
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Happy NEW YEAR from Black ButtaFly
8 January 2008 by Mekkah.
I’d like to thank the academy… just kidding. I’d like to thank YOU for your support over the past 5 years. Originally I started a newsletter focused on my tour dates and the many artists I have met along my gypsy travels. As I approach my third year in the BLOGosphere I realize that many of you signed up for Mekkah news and now… well … …its lot bigger than me. Interests have grown from poetry to politics to music, fashion and cultural commentary, so as we welcome the new year I am happy to announce some cyber expansion for Black ButtaFly and some Blog changes that will result in less spam for all.
Blogs
Black ButtaFly has 2 New Blogs!! The cocoon is not being discontinued but it will once again be your main source for all things Mekkah so stay tuned.
New!! CONCRETE SPEECH Say something that counts! Art, Culture & Commentary. Read & Subscribe to SPEECH.GypsyRevival.com
New!! GYPSY CLOSET BBFly’s Guide to Style! Keeping u Fly!
THE COCOON Deep Inside the ButtaFly! Online journal of Poet, Activist, Designer and author of ‘The Beautiful Medusa’ Kendrea Griffith aka Mekkah. Tour updates, info on upcoming appearances, readings and my gypsy life. Read & Subscibe to BLOG.MekkahThePoet.com
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Websites
Official site for Poet, Activist, Designer and author of ‘The Beautiful Medusa’ Kendrea Griffith aka Mekkah.
What’s New… MEKKAH DOES DC MON JAN 21 @ SLAMICIDE
2. www.BBFlyOnline.com - Booking, Shopping, Blogs, Forum, Chat
What’s New… Be the First to sign the new guest book! I will be in the chat room until 6pm today. Log in and let me know what you think of the new site. I am also please to welcome a new photographer to the Fly family, stay tuned for details on him that later this month. The big news is BBFly’s cyber expansion…
INTRODUCING BFly DESIGN !!
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What’s New… BBFly Live @ has gone from Denver to Virginia to Columbia to Charlotte and Season 1 AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. Be sure to subscribe to BBFLY Live @ Series on Veoh.com, invite artists and venues to check it out. This month we begin taping A NEW SEASON for WEB SYNDICATION! The process is very simple. You schedule, we tape, edit and post video. Lots of exposure for you and your artists, lots of new visitors to our site, everyone is happy. Email ads@bbflyonline.com for more details today.
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‘Poetry is Alive’ in Greensboro & Toronto
31 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Spoken Word is alive
A & T Register -
The audience felt every word he threw out and wanted him to recite more of his poetry. All the performers of the show consisted of Universal Mathematics …
Toronto’s Slam Scene Goes International
blogTO -
… brings together over twenty talented poets from across the continent, all competing for a $1000 prize and bragging rights in the spoken word community. …
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Superhead at it again
30 August 2007 by Mekkah.
E31/08 UKRunnings series back catalogue
By charlottesmummy
UK Runnings pushes, promotes and generally exposes British Hip-Hop through it’s underground mixtape releases, as well its weekly Internet radio station on Hip Hop Basement radio. Now in July 2007 we step up the pace once more with this …
Hi-Tek album “Hi-Teknology 3 Underground”
Hi-Tek album : “Hi-Teknology 3 : Underground” Hi-Tek has announced plans to release his next studio album, Hi-Teknology 3 : Underground, on November 20th. Album details are still under wraps so collaborators and guest artists haven’t …
Hip-Hop Rumors: Cam’ron’s Vengeance, Tigger To Sue Superhead? 50 …
By Houston Williams
DMX has a special place in Hip-Hop history. In fact, he’ got distinctions that people like 50 Cent, Snoop and Jay-Z don’t have. That’sa homework assignment. Anyway, I heard that DMX stayed in a
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Spoken Word Headlines
28 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Towns east of New Orleans struggle in the shadow of high-profile …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
A regular on the spoken-word poetry circuit since 2001, Shakespeare was featured in the Spike Lee documentary “When The Levees Broke” and regularly performs …
Poetry powerhouses coming to town
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In fact, many Def Poetry alums are on the bill. The show commemorates the one-year anniversary of Poets of the City, a popular monthly spoken-word series in …
Penguins find Fringe
Victoria News - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
Brendan McLeod will be teaming up with another spoken word artist, Barbara Adler, for The Fugitives. The show features spoken word, of course, …
AJA evolving for the future
Barbados Advocate - Barbados
According to AJA, the spoken word style of music is immensely popular all around the globe, but no one else is delivering it with the Caribbean vibe and …
Poetry slam guest at CCU today
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
Coastal Carolina University will host self-desccribed “spoken word artist/poet” Gemineye as well as a student poetry slam. Gemineye was born in Washington …
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection
By cruelestmonth
According to Collins’s introduction, here you’ll find “a collection of top-drawer Dylan Thomas…the Caruso of the spoken word in peerless perfomance of his and other’s works.” Those others include WH Auden, WB Yeats, Shakespeare, and, …
Foreign Policy In Focus
Foreign Policy In Focus - USA
Believing in Hazo’s idea that the star of poetry is our only guide, I asked several well-known poets about their views concerning the relationship between …
Henry Rollins talks about his USO Tour
He performs regularly as a spoken word artist and a comedian, and has written and published books of prose and poetry. Rollins is a radio and TV personality, actor, and voice-over artist. He’s done several USO tours.
Poetry Jam Collective & Rounder Records Announce Debut Release
Jazz-Quad - Minsk,Belarus
On August 28, Poetry Jam Collective and Rounder Records will release Next On The Mic, a compilation CD of spoken word accompanied by improvisational music. The album was recorded live in Cambridge, MA at the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam and with…
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Spoken
19 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Durham is becoming a national hotbed for spoken-word poetry
The Independent Weekly -
That church is expanding here, but it’s been a long rise: Spoken-word poetry started to gain popularity in the Triangle in 1999 at Expressions, …
Live, Laugh and Love for NewSpeak Slam
Asianjournal.com -
a celebration of word + music.” They are celebrating the spoken word and music as a way to empower the community and create opportunities into mainstream …
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this week Underground
18 August 2007 by Mekkah.
| Hip-Hop Rumors: FOXY BROWN IN AFRICA! 50 CENT NOT WORKING WIT DRE? [read more]
UGK #1 ALBUM IN THE COUNTRY!! Underground hip hop film-maker put in the spotlight T-Weaponz Wins the Prestigious Underground Music Award for Most … Rock the Bells Recap Ghostface Scion Concert by Rafael Martinez There are only so many ways you can upgrade a Ghostface concert. Free alcohol, some sweet dosha or perhaps a few guest appearances from his Wu-Tang brethren. But alas during Ghostface’s recent Scion sponsored concert series the only addition was… [read more] |
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‘07 Fall Fashion 1: Copenhagen Fashion Week
17 August 2007 by Mekkah.
GoGo Goes to Work @ Elise Gug This collection was all about feminine lines and simple details. If Jackie O. traded her pill box hat for a stiletto this would be her collection. High-waisted pants and A-line skits paraded in the essential colors for the modern working girl - white, camel and grey respectively. The days of free love have ended so it seems only fitting that shirt dresses and sheaths have grown a few inches closer to the knee. In this collection the sheath is was a key piece – seen in all colors - if you are meeting your mother-in-law this is the collection for the cause. Respectable, fashionable, polished with attention to simple details and clean lines. The show ended with A-line day dresses blooming like spring flowers in yellow, green, nude and peach. The color is unexpected and the design details are genius, I loved all of them. [see the show on Copenhagen Fashion Week TV]
Black & White Lux 4 Lady Tux @ Jens Laugesen We begin pitch black, the first 30 seconds beg you to focus with music renascent of a dream sequence in a movie - cue lights. Much like a futuristic minimalist dream the electric blue lights frame the first girl wearing an oversized white tuxedo vest with matching skirt over black slim leg pants. A fitting introductions to a black and white collection with a focus on luxurious looking cloths. I loved the slim black pants with just enough shine. The finish gives a rich couture look and feel not to be confused with the overdone almost metallic ‘call girl’ shine currently plaguing street fashion.
As the show progressed the music went from dream sequence to rock. The rebellious guitar fit perfectly with white party dresses, dashiki inspired tops and sheer black tops that seemed to say ‘ I’m a choir girl turned vixen …… and I’m Loving it!’ My very favorite piece came last as a sexy fallen angel in a bottom sheer black dress ended the show. [see the show on Copenhagen Fashion Week TV]
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International HIV/AIDS Progress & US Name based Reporting
15 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Syphilis Cases Increasing in New York City, Could Fuel Increase in HIV Cases [read more]
Niger’s Religious Leaders Form Alliance To Prevent Spread of HIV [read more]
Kenyan Government Developing Policy To Address HIV/AIDS in Workplace, Official Says [read more]
All U.S. States To Begin Names-Based Reporting of HIV Cases by End of 2007 [read more]
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Women Health, Rights & Policy
14 August 2007 by Mekkah.
The very first ad of Hillary Clinton’s ‘08 presidential campaign. It features Hillary delivering a powerful message the way only she can, standing up for Americans who are invisible to the Bush administration. [Watch it]
Abstinence-Only Sex Education Programs Not Effective at Preventing Spread of HIV in High-Income Countries [read more]
Most Sierra Leone Parliamentary, Presidential Candidates Unwilling To Speak Against Female Genital Cutting … [read more]
NIH Panel Releases Conclusions About Compound BPA’s Effect on Reproductive Disorders …[read more]
Many High-Risk Older Black Women Are Uninterested in Receiving HIV Tests, …[read more]
Republican Candidates’ Position on Abortion Focus of Campaigns Ahead of Iowa Straw Poll, Washington Times Reports… [read more]
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Underground Update
11 August 2007 by Mekkah.
9th Wonder Solo Album
By naedoo
Blige, Jay-Z, and Destiny’s Child, 9th Wonder has still managed to keep one foot dipped in the underground hip hop pool as his work with Murs and Sean Price can attest to. This shouldn’t be a surprise considering 9th is a founding …[read more]
Black August w/MOS DEF, TALIB KWELI, DEAD PREZ AND OTHER SURPRISE GUESTS
By bigced
Black August in the past has drawn some of the biggest names in Hip Hop, both underground and mainstream, such as Erykah Badu, David Banner, Common, dead prez, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Dave Chappelle, Fat Joe, the Roots, Rosie Perez, … [read more]
50 Cent questioning steps to Lil’ Wayne and Kanye West’s awards + Ye talks back to Beanie Sigel by Dick Johnson… [read more]
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DVD vs. Cinemaplex
10 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Straight to DVD
Film Life releases DVDs under Warner pact By George Alexander
Jeff Friday has been at the forefront of getting more black independent cinema into the marketplace for over the past decade. A former advertising executive, Friday is founder of the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), Film Life, Inc. and the Black Movie Awards. Last year Friday took his business model to another level when he inked a DVD distribution deal with Warner Home Video for …[read more]
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this week underground
9 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Gangsta Grillz Radio Now AvailableBy bigced Starting today, the world will be able to catch the founding members of The Aphilliates DJ collective five days a week. Gangsta Grillz Radio can now be heard Monday through Thursday from 10pm-Midnight, in addition to the show’s original time slot - Saturdays from 8pm-10pm. Hosted by DJs Drama, Don Cannon and Sense, the show airs in Atlanta on WHTA-FM 107.9 and can also be heard online at www.Hot1079atl.com.
To celebrate the show’s re-launch, Gangsta Grillz Radio took over Atlanta airwaves this weekend, airing in eight hour slots on… [read more]
Reviews: Paid Dues Hip-Hop Festival: Abbey Pub, Chicago By aquaboogie
What sets Paid Dues apart from your average indie Hip-Hop show is that these aren’t just a few friends from the same label on the road together. Rather, this twelve-stop tour features several of the most respected subterraneous MCs … [read more]
Check out this album:D-Styles
By S.O.U.L.(S.O.U.L.)
D-STYLES - INSPIRATION INFORMATION [listen]
Clips From UGK’s “Underground Kingz” DVD [watch]
YouTube & 50 Cent waaooow!!!
YouTube is seeking the next hip-hop star in the US with the help of artists 50 Cent, Common and Polow da Don… [check it out]
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HIV and Children’s Health Insurance
8 August 2007 by Mekkah.
House Passes Children’s Health Insurance Bill That Would Extend Abstinence Education Program for Two Years [read more]
High Number of HIV Cases Found Among Female Inmates in Washington, D.C. [read more]
Needle-Exchange Programs in Four New Jersey Cities Approved, Health Officials Say [read more]
Indian Government Launches Campaign To Curb Mother-to-Child HIV Transmissions [read more]
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Abortion Rights & Belly Dancing
7 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Republican Presidential Candidates Discuss Abortion Rights, Other Issues During Debate [read more from the Kaiser Network]
New Labor Moves: Belly Dancing Hits Delivery Room Connection to Childbirth May Have Ancient Origins; A Shimmy and a Roll By RACHEL ZIMMERMAN [read more]
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Fashion forward 4mal?
5 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Dior regional fashion presentation held in
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Underground Hip Hop
4 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Music Review: Big Shug - Streetchamp
By Laron Cue
This album is tight as the Super Human Underground Gangster aka Shug, has improved his style, singing voice,and flow nailing it with ease. Streetchamp is Hip-Hop in it’s purest form, when it comes to the beats and production too. …
Copperpot - “WYLA? (What’re You Looking At?)”
By mpardaiolo(mpardaiolo)
I think it’s safe to say (and as I did say in the Shape of Broad Minds review) that the style of inventive producing Madlib and the late J Dilla perfected in recent years is the go-to sound for most underground hip-hop purveyors. …
The American Pit Bull Dog…once a smiling ICON! Buster Brown and …
By babyboomerqueen The blood sport has operated underground for years, but many agree the hip hop use of pit bull images moved it out of the shadows and the Michael Vick case placed it at center stage. The star quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, …
Chicago Deep Dish: The Best Kept Secret in Hip-Hop
By odeisel
The underground was properly represented in a no frills format. For those of you hustlers, that’s four corners of the Hip-Hop aesthetic: The mainstream(Dropout, Registration), the conscious(Be), the backpackers/underground(F&L, …
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Black Journalist murdered + Darfur Peace Talks
3 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Outspoken Calif. editor shot to death
The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit.
Chauncey Bailey, 57, was killed around 7:30 a.m., Oakland Police spokesman Roland Holmgren said. Witnesses told police a man wearing a…[read more]
Darfur rebels begin peace talks
Dozens of leaders from Darfur’s fractured rebel movement have begun talks in Tanzania. The talks, mediated by the UN and African Union, are aimed at finding…[read more]
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DJ King David & Kurious Jorge ‘n more
2 August 2007 by Mekkah.
Kurious Jorge’sA Constipated Monkey To Be Re-Released on September …
By bigced
The album’s subtle mix of underground vigor and flavorful party anthems pleased many of hip-hop’s discerning aficionados. A guest list that included The Hieroglyphics’ Casual and DJ Lord Sear on the mic and a back-from-the-dead Bosco … [read more]
SELFMATHEMATIKS: Style and Symbolism
By Spityourbestverse
Models marched, swaggered, and even up-rocked down the runway rocking hand printed shirts emblazoned with graphics potent with underground hip-hop’s aesthetic and militant political idealism. “Every piece we put out will have some kind…[read more]
More DJ King David…
Despite his discretion on the world of hip hop, DJ King David has worked with the greatest (including Eminem), as Detroit hip hop lovers would probably know. With his partner in crime DJ Butter, DJ King David has a lot of good … [read more]
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