SNIPES Celebrated MLK Day with Spoken Word Reimagining Iconic Speech
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Streetwear brand SNIPES worked with Bronx based poet, performer, educator, and activist Roya Marsh to imagine a contemporary performance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have A Dream speech” for MLK Day Monday.
Marsh is the author of dayliGht.
Her work is concerned with Queer liberation and dismantling white supremacy.
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Marsh is also the co-founder of the Bronx Poet Laureate, a PEN America Emerging Voices Mentor, Lamda Literary faculty, and the recipient of the 2021 Lotus Foundation Prize for poetry.
Above: Roya Marsh performs at The Bowery in New York, NY in May 2021.
Watch Marsh’s MLK Day performance below.
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Marsh’s work has been featured in The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, the Village Voice, Nylon Magazine, Huffington Post, The Root, and Button Poetry.
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She has performed at BAM, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Apollo Theater, and Lexus Verses; as well as on NBC and BET.
Marsh’s 2018 literary debut was in one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years, The BreakBeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic.
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A continuation of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology, volume 2 focused on the most exciting Black women writers, breaking up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club, and asserting the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.
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