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In the Mecca by Brightmoments on Mixcloud The year 1968 continues to light the way through the dark and incantatory matter of our archive. It’s the year in which poet Henry Dumas was killed by a New York Transit Authority Officer, the year in which we began keeping a closer eye on our data and the data thieves who shake it off its axis. It’s also the year in which Gwendolyn Brooks published her now out-of-print testament to Chicago tenement living, In the Mecca. This Feeding is a tribute to and invocation of that text. An excavation of the work and its tender, unflinching narrative. A first step toward a reprint. We start in the middle of a sentence and move in every direction at once. Look for the postlude After Mecca and more information on the text and its full context, on our Tumblr: http://feedpod.tumblr.com. Featuring Moodyman Stokely Carmichael Lon Moshe Muhammad Ali Sun Ra Eddie Gale Spaceghostpurrp Donald Byrd Abbey Lincoln Fred Moten Norma Winstone & Michael Garrick Amiri Baraka Nina Simone Erimaj Tracie Morris Gwendolyn Brooks Clifford Coulter Etheridge Knight Subscribe to FeedPod