The Beat Goes on Poetry Slam and Roundtable
7-8pm: SGA Roundtable discussion on "Creating
Movements of Racial Justice by Bridging Cultural Activities of Communities and Student Organizations"
8-10pm: Poetry Slam and Performance
Featuring M.C. Soulfighter, Poetress Crystal Senter-Brown, D.J. Menya, and the All Starz Breaking Crew (Open sign-up for the SLAM during the round-table event).
Event produced by Community Against Hate and sponsored by the UMass-Amherst Student Government Association. Co-Sponsors include: Universal Write Publications, UMass-Amherst ALANA (African, Latino/a, Asian / Pacific Islander, Native American) Caucus, UMass-Amherst Student Center for Educational Research and Advocacy, Massachusetts Campaign for Free Higher Education, Young Socialists, Amherst College Black Student Union, UMass-Amherst’s Casa Dominicana, UMass-Amherst’s Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA), UMass-Amherst’s Asian Americans for Political Action (AAPA), and more.
Message from the founder of Community Against Hate:
The Beat Goes On is an event created in 1997 by Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor. This is an edutainment event designed to network the college communities with the larger communities for socially conscious action in our communities of the African Diaspora. This event is dedicated to those that fought and died for our freedom. In an interview with Kwame Ture before he died, he stated that he believed that he was dying from government induced cancer, but that "The beat must go on." He referred to the beat as the causes that keep us marching, fighting for justice, and working toward better living conditions. This event is dedicated to Ida B. Wells, Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, as well as those living to bring us close to the light, understanding, and actions of freedom as people, races, religions, as a whole.