In Nigeria, spoken word artists like Hafsat Abdullahi are carving out space in the creative economy, expanding the role of ...

It’s a warm, humid Saturday in Abuja. Hafsat Abdullahi is prepping for a film shoot on location in a quiet neighbourhood.

Last week, eighth-graders from Bradley Beach elementary school took the auditorium stage to perform original spoken word ...

I grew up in Kembong, a village in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, where life was simple, calm, and community-oriented, but schooling could be harsh. My earliest memories of school are filled with ...

The NAACP Poetry Slam is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 31, at Café Rica, 62 E. Michigan Ave. in Battle Creek. The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m., according to a community announcement.

Arc Raiders has ended its 'Server Slam' playtest with a big peak concurrent player number on Steam, suggesting a strong launch is ahead. The open Server Slam ran over the weekend on PC via Steam and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 11—BEMIDJI — Watermark's first spoken word Poetry SLAM! of the season will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at Fozzie ...

Even if Minnesota hits on a handful of prospects, both from ones currently in the system and what’s coming into the organization via this week’s transactions, there is a clear ceiling to this model.

This was the loud and unapologetic environment I stepped into at Get Lit’s Classic Slam, a poetry competition where more than 50 high schools participate annually. It was, as Tiffany Snow, Get Lit’s ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...

It’s been 20 years since Nancy Sullivan, a media specialist at Portland’s McDaniel High School, organized a poetry slam for students in the school’s library. That one slam eventually evolved into ...