While recently visiting the city of Orlando, I attended a sports memorabilia convention. If you are into the sport memorabilia hobby like I am, specifically game-used memorabilia, you would love this convention. Game-used memorabilia are items that were worn or used in play during an actual sporting event Tim Masthay Jersey. The items most often sought after are usually game-worn jerseys and autographed baseballs. I actually bought a game-used jersey at the convention that was worn by Cal Ripken Jr., the well know shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. He was one of my childhood role models and most cherished athletes when I was a kid.
The term "Jazzoetry" was coined by the Last Poets, who used it as the name of one of their albums. The term was applied to the revolutionary style of poetry with a jazz background that they had popularized during their 70s heyday. While the term may not have applied so much to the written word, particularly that before it, there were black poets who wrote with an afrocentric flow and fervor that was inspiration and insightful.Amiri Baraka is one such poet and is considered the founding father of the Black Arts Movement. He was born Everett LeRoi Jones, in Newark, New Jersey, October 7, 1934.
Baraka (still writing under his given name of LeRoi Jones) found success early, winning the Obie In 1964 for his racially-charged play, "The Dutchman," which focused on the brief, but volatile rapport between a young black man and a blonde temptress Packers pro shop. He later opened a school that emphasized blackness in an artistic, musical, poetic and dramatic context.

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