Essex Hemphill Sunday School: The Podcast

You know I had to hook you up for Mother’s Day!  To honor the nurturing work that queer Black folks have been doing in all of our communities for lifetimes….this podcast honors the prophet, poet, activist, ancestor Essex Hemphill.  Documenting the Sunday School at the Inspiration Station celebrating Hemphill’s birthday in April, this podcast features the voices of Durham’s finest (and the Durham diaspora) reading Hemphill’s poetry and our own work inspired by his legacy, his visions of the afterlife, his love for community.   Wake up new with the powerful voices of Yolanda Carrington, Ashon Crawley, Diane Beckett, Chelsea Earles, Beth Bruch, Jade Brooks, Elandria Williams, Ebony Noelle Golden, and get inspired with beautiful music from Yolo Akili, Meshell Ndegeocello, Duke Ellington, Raheem DeVaughn, Res, and Curtis Mayfield.

Contextualize your Sunday, mother yourself, listen with your mother!

(direct link: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/essex-hemphill-sunday-school-podcast-1.mp3)

(and this time the levels are totally equal, but still a little quiet.  So raise the praise and pump up the volume.)

Infinite love,

Alexis