Just wanted to let folks know about this Black Bag event Black Studies is putting on about art and prisons, featuring spoken word artist and organizer Bryonn Bain (www.bryonnbain.com), thought some of you might be interested in attending.

Portland State University's Black Studies Department and Multicultural Center present

Bryonn Bain: Lyrics on Lockdown

Friday, June 5, 2009

12:00-1:30pm

Multicultural Center
Smith Memorial Student Union 228
Portland State University

This event will be catered

Bryonn Bain founded the Blackout Arts Collective in 1997. In 2001 Blackout launched the Lyrics on Lockdown tour, which travels to prisons and colleges, using hip hop and spoken word to raise consciousness about the prison industrial complex.

Bryonn himself wrongfully imprisoned during his second year at Harvard Law. Bryonn wrote The Village Voice cover story "Walking While Black" which drew the largest response in the history of the nation's most widely-read progressive newspaper.



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