Black, White & Blue

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Written By Shannon Cumberbatch

This piece was originally free written in 2016 as an outlet to release the weight of anti-Black state violence. It was subsequentially published in the Harvard Black Letter Law Journal in 2019. It has since been recited and recorded as a musical feature in collaboration with Kenyan rap artist Kaa La Moto, and Maasai singer/producer/videographer Emma Maasai and Mama C at the United African Alliance Community Center in Tanzania, founded by Black Panthers Charlotte and Pete O’Neal.

You can read the poem and watch an excerpt of raw footage of this collaboration below.

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Shannon Cumberbatch

Welcome to my digital home, where you’ll find insight into my words and world. Write to Resistance is where I record our collective wounds, recovery and resilience through poetic expression. I write intuitively and fluidly, allowing the words and images I receive to flow onto the page without committing to any one convention. For me, this creative process is cathartic, and offers the perfect container for sentiments too heavy for a plain paragraph to hold.

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