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TED Talks Society and Culture

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

TED Talks Society and Culture

TED

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4.1794 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

"It is the artist's job to unearth stories that people try to bury with shovels of complacency and time," says poet and freedom fighter Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa. Performing her poem "The Joys of Motherhood," Katwiwa explores the experience of Black mothers in America and discusses the impact of the Movement for Black Lives -- because, she says, it's impossible to separate the two.

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