Steven Willis - The Power of Your Story, and Black Liberation Theology

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Connor Beaton

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Steven Willis uses his writing background to creatively articulate the intricacies of African American culture. With art heavily influenced by urban life and religion, Steven mixes elements of hip hop and performance with formal teachings of history and anthropology to help express his eclectic personal narrative. Willis began doing spoken word at the age of 15 as a participant of Louder Than A Bomb and has performed for the likes of Hip Hop artist David Banner and Olympic Track Gold Medalist Sonya Richards Ross. Wills is a contributing writer to the BreakBeat Poets Anthology, NYU’s National Council for Teacher of English Journal, Manhattanville College’s Graffiti Magazine and is a 3 time Individual World Poetry Slam finalist. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Theatre at the University of Iowa. Connect with Steven Website: www.stevenwillispoetry.com Twitter: @stevenawillis Instagram: @stevenantoinewillis Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Man Talk Show.
0:12.1	I'm Connor Beeden.
0:14.0	This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and extraordinary individuals to help teach and mentor you on how to be a top performer
0:22.7	in life, love, and business. And joining me today is a very special guest named Stephen Willis.
0:30.4	And I heard Stephen on randomly on YouTube. I came across this spoken word on button poetry and it was called How the Hood
0:41.6	Loves You Back.
0:43.1	And Stephen just blew me away.
0:45.5	It was such an amazing, amazing piece of artwork.
0:49.0	And it was just incredible.
0:50.4	It was really impactful.
0:51.6	And I found myself, you know, searching out a lot of his content
0:55.6	and searching out his spoken word. And, uh, and so that's going to be interviewing today. So he,
1:02.0	he uses his writing background to embark on the daunting task of creatively articulating African-American
1:08.7	culture with art heavily influenced by urban life and
1:12.7	religions grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Stephen mixes elements of hip-hop and performance with
1:19.3	formal teachings of history and anthropology to help express his eclectic personal narrative.
1:26.4	He began doing spoken word at the age of 15 as a participant of louder than a bomb
1:31.5	and has performed for the likes of radio and TV personality Charlemagne the God
1:36.6	and Olympic track gold medalist Sonia Rickards Ross.
1:40.6	He is a contributing writer to the breakbeat. I almost said breakfast.
1:45.8	Breakbeat poets.
1:47.3	Anthology, NYU's National Council for Teacher of English Journal and Manhattanville
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