Sekou Sundiata Net Worth is
$4 Million

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An extremely esteemed performing poet, Sekou Sundiata wrote for printing, performance, music and theater. Blessed Robert Franklin Feaster in Harlem, on August 22, 1948, Sundiata emerged old as an musician during the Dark Arts/Dark Aesthetic movements from the 1960s and 1970s. While attending the town College of NY (CCNY), where he began reciting poetry publicly, Sundiata converged with other pupil activists, including once-mayoral applicant of Pittsburgh and longtime friend, Leroy Hodge, to create the foundation for what shortly became referred to as the Black and Puerto Rican Pupil Community of City College (BPRSC). This phalanx of 400 learners soon produced their own background, shutting the 21,000-pupil campus through the Planting season of 1969, to demand, among other activities, that CCNY end up being renamed Harlem School. The net aftereffect of the college student takeover culminated in both an Open up Admissions Plan that took impact in Sept 1970, the entire legitimization of cultural studies departments through the entire nation, aswell as the necessity that education majors within the town University take programs in BLACK History also to possess Spanish as another Language. Among his recognized mentors at City were Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, and fellow student Louis Reyes Rivera, with whom Sundiata helped to determine the first Dark student newspaper in the town University, CCNY’s The Paper. Their association would period near forty many years of shared respect and admiration. Upon completing his Bachelor’s Degree (circa 1974), Sundiata enrolled and completed his Master’s in Creative Writing while regularly producing community-based poetry readings which were known to pull SRO crowds. In 1976, his innovative sensibilities, his innate arranging abilities, and his organizations having a convergent era of superb poets, music artists and dancers instantly resulted in a collaborative task he directed that could commemorate a century of Dark struggle for independence and Human Privileges. Titled The Seems of the Memory space of several Living People (1863-1876/ 1963-1976), this creation, including upcoming novelist Arthur Blossoms and such poets as Safiya Henderson-Holmes, BJ Ashanti, Tom Mitchelson, Louis Reyes Rivera, et al, was staged in Harlem over an interval of two times, signaling a lot of that which was to result from Sekou’s feeling of vision, continuously breaking surface for that which was then a brand-new literary genre, Functionality Poetry, completely anticipating components of both HIPHOP Lifestyle and Spoken Phrase Art. In 1977, these poets, along with Zizwe Ngafua, Rashidah Ismaili, Fatisha (Hutson), Sandra Maria Esteves, Akua Lezli Wish, Mervyn Taylor, and Sekou, amongst others, formed the Calabash Poets Workshop, which group signaled the arrival of a fresh literary heat in NY, regularly producing soirees and fori (1977-1983) that included every one of the arts and culminated within a three-year attempt (1979-1982) to determine an independent Dark Writers Union. Upon the discharge of his first vinyl album (circa 1980), Are & Be, Sekou Sundiata was dubbed by Amiri Baraka as “the State from the Art.”Since that time, Mr. Sundiata set up a longtime romantic relationship with CCNY’s Aaron Davis Performing Arts Middle, through which place he intermittently created new materials for the stage, regularly collaborating with music artists, dancers and stars. He was ultimately selected for several gained fellowships, including a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, a Columbia School Revson Fellow, a Professional Artist-in-Residence on the Atlantic Middle for the Arts (Florida), so that as the initial Writer-in-Residence at the brand new School School in NY, where university’s Eugene Lang University he continued to be a professor. He was, aswell, among those featured in the Costs Moyers’ PBS series on poetry, The Vocabulary of Lifestyle, and in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on HBO.

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Full Name	Sekou Sundiata
Died	July 18, 2007, Valhalla, Mount Pleasant, New York, United States
Profession	Poet
Education	City College of New York
Nationality	American
Parents	William Feaster, Virginia Myrtle Singleton Feaster