Her name is Jyoti Singh Pandey. The 23-year-old female medical student was brutally raped by six men on a private bus on her way back from watching a movie in New Delhi on December 16. She died from her injuries two weeks later in a Singapore hospital. The crime has sent India and the world [...]
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Inspired Poetry: Ode to Louder Than a Bomb
On Friday, February 24, Benevolent Media presented Louder Than a Bomb, a fundraiser party to benefit Split This Rock and the DC Youth Slam Team in Washington, D.C. Friends and fans joined us at The Dunes for a special evening featuring live performances by D.C.’s best and brightest youth poets, plus excerpts from Louder Than a Bomb, an award-winning documentary about the [...]
Q&A with Jonathan Tucker: Poetry as an Agent for Change
Jonathan B. Tucker is a poet, educator, and coach of the DC Youth Slam Team. Two-time winner of the Community Oriented Underground Poet (COUP) Award from the National Underground Spokenword Poetry Awards, “JBT” is passionate about using poetry as a community organizing tool. When not working with students he can be found around D.C. performing and [...]
Hip-Hop as Transnational Protest in “Furious Force of Rhymes”
Hip-hop has always been breaking down barriers. American hip-hop artists were among the first to have videos shown on MTV, with shows like Yo! MTV Raps, which brought them national notoriety, intertwining their music with the dawn of a new global era in music. The evolution of hip-hop has not been confined to [...]
Q&A with Greg Jacobs: Louder Than a Bomb
The uplifting and inspiring documentary film Louder Than a Bomb follows four Chicago high school teams in their journey to compete in the world’s largest teen poetry slam, created by local nonprofit Young Chicago Authors that empowers youth through writing, publication and performance education. The feature film begins at the start of the school year, six months prior [...]
If You Can’t Say Something Nice…
“We’re from Dallas, Texas and we love New York!” “Mommy loves you!” “Have a good day everybody!” “You are all wonderful!” These are just some of the nice things that people shouted into a megaphone installed on a wooden lectern displaying a placard with simple instructions: “Say Something Nice.” The installation was placed in [...]
