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at Julio and we have another exciting bonus mini episode for y'all.

So this one is a performance by a nationally

and internationally known award-winning spoken word poet,

an author, her name is Amanda Ferg. and she performed during one of our live shows in Jackson, Mississippi.

So Amanda was born and raised in Jackson and throughout the Mississippi Delta, and she began

her own journey into creativity when she was around

eight years old as a student at Power AIPAC which at the time was Mississippi's only

academic and performing arts complex. Her first poems like her early ones

they landed her yearly placements in the annual Jackson Public School

District's Martin Luther King oratorical contest.

Her most recent published work is called from a brown paper bag and you can get it online,

you know, from your booksellers.

And when we were checking in with Amanda, she she tells us that

she aspires to write and record organic material with depth that will inspire

listeners and readers to empower change.

She says she's dedicated to seeing young people,

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