BAM Speakers and Artists

BAM Speakers and Artists Bureau

Bruce George, co-producer

of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and founder of the Genius Project

Donald Lacy, actor, playwright, director, comedian, DJ on

KPOO Radio, San Francisco

Kujichagulia, poet, musician, dancer, ethno-musicologist

Sonia Sanchez, BAM co-founder, poet, playwright, professor

emeritus Temple University

Marvin X, BAM co-founder, poet, playwright, essayist, director, producer,

planner, educator, publisher

Prosperity Carter, poet, motivational speaker, author of the forthcoming

collection of essays How to Get Off The Shelf Collecting Dust

Theo Williams, leader, Samba Funk Band

Askia Toure, poet, scholar, BAM co-founder

Felipe Luciano, Original Last Poets, educator, activist

Dr. Nathan Hare, sociologist, clinical psychologist, father of

Black and Ethnic Studies, founder of Black Scholar Magazine,

first chair of Black Studies at San Francisco State University

The Last Poets, co-founders of BAM, father's of rap poetry

Aries Jordan, poet, educator, BAM baby,associate editor of The Movement

Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, poet, playwright, director, producer, actress, BAMBD planner

founder of Lower Bottom Playaz, Oakland

Ras Baraka, poet, educator, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey

Elaine Brown, former chair of the Black Panther Party, activist

Walter Riley, Civil Rights lawyer

Amina Baraka, poet, activist

Davey D, DJ, KPFA Radio, lecturer, San Francisco State University

Tarika Lewis, violinist, first female member of the Black Panther Party

Destiny Muhammad, harpist of the hood

Cornel West, author, professor, public intellectual, activist

George Walker, Creative Director, The Brothers' Network

David Murray, musician

Danny Glover, BAM co-founder, film actor, activist

Angela Davis, professor, author, activist