![]() ![]() ![]() The African American Museum hosted the event, which included a discussion with Ms. She has also been an activist on behalf of the entire community in support of world peace.Īrt Sanctuary’s 32nd Annual Celebration of Black Arts Festival concluded this year on May 31, with a showing of “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez.” The documentary was produced and directed by Janet Goldwater, Barbara Attie, and Sabrina Schmidt Gordon. ![]() In “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez,” a documentary about her life, Sanchez says that she writes in order to explain how she became the woman with “razor blades between her teeth.” An ardent and sometimes strident poet and civil rights activist, Sanchez, now 81, has spent over five decades employing the power of language, brilliantly and influentially, to provoke and promote change, self-empowerment, and self-determination on behalf of and in the African American community, and particularly on behalf of African American women. Sonia Sanchez is a familiar figure in Philadelphia, and beyond. “Language is the most dangerous of professions.” – Sonia Sanchez A Tribute to Sonia Sanchez © 2001 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / James Dupree. ![]()
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