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Bio

Founder, AKILA WORKSONGS

💙 Howard U Grad. | HBCUsMatter
📚 Published Writer and Editor
♊️ Gemini GenX Lover of Blk People

This long ass bio lists just some of my professional accomplishments. My depth and value in this world, however, are unquantifiable.
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💼 💅🏾 Founder and CEO, AKILA WORKSONGS (a communications agency), est. 1993 💪🏿

📩 Founder and EIC, Put On BLAST! Email Marketing Newsletter (est. 1997)

🔔 Chief Publicist + Communications Strategist to Your Favorite Authors, Poets, Playwrights, Scholars, Documentary Filmmakers, Broadway Actors, Choreographers, Non-Profit Leaders, Business Leaders, Activist-Attorneys, Health Practitioners, Healers, a few GRAMMY, TONY, EMMY Winners, and a diverse roster of visionaries. 🎥📚🪘👩🏼‍🎨🩺💆🏽🪡🧶🎓💼🎭🎬
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👊🏾 HipHopHead4Life
• Founding President, The Cultural Initiative, Inc. at Howard University (est. 1992)
• #SisterSouljahTaughtMe
• Former Asst. to Doug E. Fresh
• I have booked for, collaborated or partnered with many of HIP HOP culture's foremothers, forefathers, pioneers, and living legends that you love: Chuck D, Sister Souljah, Doug E. Fresh, KRS-One, Heather B., Toni Blackman, dream hampton, asha bandele, Pete Rock, Deric "D-Dot" Angeletti, Ron Lawrence, Kevin Powell, Rosa Clemente, Kuttin Kandi, Davey D, Rahzel, Common, Adesola Osakalumi, Dr. Joan Morgan, Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey, Weldon Irvine, THE LAST POETS, Nana Camille Yarbrough, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and many others.
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• Editor, “Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood” (Counterpoint Press, 2008)
• “I’ve Got Life! Real Talk from Black Women Artists, Activists, and Healers” (work-in-progress)
• Ghost Speechwriter 🤫
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💙 🦬 HowardU Grad. (English, ‘91)
• California Club, Member
• Alpha Sweetheart Court, President
• The Hilltop, Reporter
• Janus, Student Editor + Contributor
• Black Nia F.O.R.C.E., Exec. Minister
• Co-Leader, 1989 Student Protest
• H.U.S.A President
• Co-Founder of the Nation’s First Hip Hop Conference at a College or University (1991)
• Resident Assistant, Park Square
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Awo Ifa under the tutelage of Chief Ayanda Clarke, Ajibilu Awo of Osogbo, Nigeria 🇳🇬
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📧 [email protected] (personal)
📧 [email protected] (biz)
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📞 (718) 756-8501 (ofc)
🌍 AKILAWORKSONGS.com
🌍 PutOnBLAST.com
My DMs Are Open👇🏾