Hey Crew,
I hope your weekend was fun and productive. This week's John's Words of Wisdom is Below:
I met an influential and outstanding poet this past weekend at the Book it Back To Bronzeville Book Festival at the Afrocentric Bookstore on the Southside of Chicago. The wonderful Poet's name was Nikki Giovanni click link to read more about her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni
I took some of the footage and decided to turn it into John's Words of Wisdom this week.
Nikki Giovanni touched on a little bit of everything at the book fest. She spoke about her new books (Hip-hop Speaks to Children, Lincoln & Douglass), politics (Alaska Governor / Republican Vice President Nominee Sarah Palin) , and Tupac Shakar. Meeting Nikki Giovanni was one of the best things that ever happen to me. I went into the the book store empty and confused and left full and ready to help change the world.
What I would like for you all to do for John's Words of Wisdom this week is watch the Video below and paraphrase the video in 2 or more paragraphs. From the paragraphs I would like for you all to try to develop an article for the next version of the iSwagg magazine. So please take your time and make sure that you watch the entire video. After you watch the video let me know what you think about Nikki Giovanni and her impact on America.
2 comments:
John as I paid close attention to Nikki that was a great speech about how music effect teens like teens at a young age walking around pregant. Se stated that if Obama wife walked on stage with her 16 years old daughter everyone will think that she was raise by parents who dont care at all. The part that got me was how teens dress know "boys walking around with there pants to there knees".Hip Hop does speak out better then the music that we listen to know. All the music that we listen to give us the clue to do what they do I'm talking about like killing selling drugs and also joining a gang because these boys think they're bad.Music have an impact on everyone. Like listen to R.Kelly, Usher,Lil Wayne,and etc. Every piece of music they make always have something negitive to give teens to try what they do.
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