May 2012
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"Literacy Test AKA The New Jim Crow" is published... →
(Written for the Librotraficante Caravan Press Conference in Albuquerque in response to the ban of books & ethnic studies in Arizona.)
April 2012
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Blow on Trayvon Martin : A Conversation with the...
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"Love Song" by Hakim Be currently being...
Love Song.
By Hakim Bellamy Visit his website by clicking here.
Writing love songs Makes one think less About the sex They wish they were having
Breath Hot, heaving, heavy And relatively unused
Sits frustrated And lonely In lungs Waiting
Waiting for a chance To make it
Beautiful music
Make out A way Escape To its preferred destination
Behind her ear The condensation Humidity...
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2bers & Urban Verbs tomorrow @ 7pm! 1st 40 in the... →
Thanks to my man Artis Jackson at Nightvision for posting a blog on the 2bers DIG Album Release Concert & Benefit tomorrow at the Historic El Rey Theater in Albuquerque. Urban Verbs just announced that the FIRST 40 FOLKS IN THE DOOR WILL RECEIVE FREE ALBUM DOWNLOADS BY ALL THREE MEMBERS OF URBAN VERBS! #BOOYAH
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March 2012
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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry
(for Christina Kent Early Childhood Center) - by hakim bellamy When I grow up I’m going to make believe That I can be anything That I want to be Maybe even be President Of the whole wide world I can be the first President That is an American girl I could even be a pilot And give all my friends a ride They’ll say, “Can we see your plane?” And I’ll say, “Sure, it’s parked right outside!” I could be...
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March is Women Makin’ History Month a Jazzbah!
Jazzbars w/ Hakim Be & Friends will be “front-woman’d” by Donne “The Wychdokta” Lewis
A bar is a measure of music…Whether it be the bars on the sheet music of a jazz musician or the hot 16 of an MC, every generation measures itself in song. Every month at Jazzbah, a few musicians and a poet or two will give you another moment to remember…We don’t bridge the gap between Hip-Hop and Jazz, we...
February 2012
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Poem written for Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program...
“Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor.
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself
To a cause, to your principles
To the people on whom you rely
And who rely on you in return.”
-Senator John McCain
Hero (for Poet Laureate of Albuquerque)
I’ve heard of God
Washing feet
But never writing poems
Even the Bible
Was written by man
God?
Was...
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January 2012
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WatchThe Roots Revival Musical team was on KASA/FOX2 on Monday promoting this weekend’s three show run of Roots Revival. Find out more about Roots Revival (originally written, scored and cast in Albuquerque for Black History Month) and other Black History Month events at the NM Black History Month Committee website. For the price of admission the show also includes the art exhibit, FOUR + 1. The...
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DOC - by hakim bellamy
Written for &...
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Poem Commissioned for the 2nd Annual Anti-Racism...
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Keynote address by Hakim Bellamy for the Santa Fe...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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First Tuesday's in Albquuerque...
Performance poetry + live jazz = a pre-hip hop flavor in an upscale setting Award-winning M.C. and award-winning mixology at Albuquerque’s newest jazz club JAZZBAHABQ.COM - Downtown Albuquerque has not seen a jazz club since the 50s. That’s when Albuquerque High School alum Chester and his wife, Pert, owned Chet and Pert’s Flamingo Lounge. Downtown has changed since then. Jazz, the only pure...
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The second time I put words, thoughts and heart to...
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(Un)Occupy Albuquerque in the Daily Kos "Where We... →
I want to personally thank folks for the fantastic work they are doing as organizers within the (Un)Occupy Albuquerque movement. Folks like Desi Brown (@ UNM Peace Studies), Almarosa, Sayrah, Sebastian Pais and his hunger strike, Hershey and many more that I don’t know, but love. You are all holding me, us, UNM and the world accountable and we must continue to keep this fire burning. Thanks...
October 2011
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Talk At Ten Interview: River Is The Road Festival... →
Many thanks to my friend and mentor Eileen Torpey and Bett Williams for putting on an amazing film festival in Marfa, TX. Drift 2011 was amazing and I am sorry I could not be there in person, only in artistry. At the 17:00m mark, they discuss my Videom, recorded and premiered at the Drift 2011 Film Festival. Thank you Eileen and Bett!
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Media and Democracy Coalition profiles Hakim... →
Big shout out to Rachel Colyer and the Media and Democracy Coalition for asking me why I do my work and what I believe is critically important about it. Media and Democracy Coalition (MADCo.) does some amazing work, check them out at http://www.media-democracy.net/
September 2011
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Story Sutra →
That has a very nice ring to it ;) Thank you again TEDxABQ! So many people have seen me afterwards and said nice things about my TED Talk. I am humbled by your praise and encouragement. Beautiful people deserve beautiful words, I’m doing my best to meet you half way. (See some of the awesome photos from TEDxABQ here.)-hb
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Watch“Ruidosa: A Videom” was a poem that was requested and originally composed by Hakim Bellamy for DRIFT 2011. “The River is the Road: Ruidosa Art Happening” is hosting a DRIFT Video Night on September 17, 2011 in Ruidosa, Texas. There will be a selection of video shorts by artists from the East Coast and Southwest as well as live performances by New York artists Irvin...
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