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(Part 2 of 2) Today, we are honored to welcome Supreme Dow to Jim’s Lower Lounge. Supreme is the founder and executive director of the Black Writers Museum in Germantown, the only museum in the United States dedicated to black literature. The museum, located in Vernon Park, is an essential space for cultural life in Germantown today, and it hosts the People’s Poetry and Jazz Festival every summer. Supreme discusses his upbringing in Germantown and his family’s involvement in local politics beginning as early as the 1960s, as well as Philadelphia’s significance in the civil rights movement -- the Quakers, the Baptist church, and the Black Panthers all figure into the story. We also discuss the writers who inspired Supreme to dedicate his life to literature, and the most influential writers living in Philadelphia today. Supreme is an accomplished poet himself, and in 2016 he published a collection of poetry entitled Quiet Screams. Find Supreme Dow: blackwritersmuseum.com Photo: mhamiltonvisuals.com Recorded August 2018 Hosted by Thomas Hagen and Jim Hamilton Produced by Tyler Ripley, Jim Hamilton and Thomas Hagen