The SFJAZZ Poet Laureate and Rockefeller Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph presents an exclusive look into his upcoming opera Race, Violence and the Sacred. Based around the mass shooting at Pittsburgh's ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: The Trump administration is targeting “woke” culture. But can a democracy thrive without artistic freedom? Marc Bamuthi Joseph, an internationally renowned ...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph has always sought to combine social impact, arts, and culture to drive change, but he does it as a spoken word artist. The Morehouse College alum recently curated a piece titled ...

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has fired at least five members of its Social Impact team, including its artistic director, the renowned artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The team aimed to expand ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Productions such as “The Laramie Project” and “The Vagina Monologues” stand as a few of today’s ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with artists Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Liz Gre about The Cartography Project — a multi-year art commission that explores the effects of racial violence. And finally tonight, ...

Marc Bamuthi Joseph has won four national poetry slams and appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. He’s been hailed by critics as being one of the most compelling and important spoken-word performance ...

On Friday, spoken-word poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer-musician Daniel Bernard Roumain delivered a live performance brimming with life “The Just and the Blind” could be most simply described as ...

When we think of the green movement, using hip-hop theater as a community-organizing tool may be the last thing to come to mind. But after the EPA struck down a California law raising statewide ...

“Joseph is the real deal, swinging with such confidence that you grasp for adjectives to capture his skills.” —Star Tribune Spoken word/hip-hop theater artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s new multimedia work ...