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“If it wasn’t for reggae music I wouldn’t be sitting here today,” Linton Kwesi Johnson told his audience at last month’s Bocas LitFest, and for some of the audience that was also true, thanks to LKJ himself. His music – a spacey dub of drum and bass, with that huge, deep, deadpan, doom-laden voice booming
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Yohann Koshy (The Guardian) reviews Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson, “A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience.” One Saturday afternoon in 1972, Linton Kwesi Johnson was walking through Brixton market when he noticed three plainclothes police officers arresting a young man. Seeing their excessive use…
A collection of the radical poet’s writing charts a groundbreaking career chronicling the black British experience
And injured so many. this weekend there were several programs honoring the victims, survivors and first responders, who quickly rushed in to save so many lives we had a chance to speak with a lot of folks here on the ground the past couple days including onebostonian who ran the race that day ten years ago and she continues to run the race for those survivors. take a listen. >> to be grateful for running. i always remember the people that i run for and the people that are lost and i always make a special mental tribute at the finish line like big papi does, looking up to the people the boston ...