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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Malcolm-Jamal Warner about his Grammy nomination for best spoken word poetry album and the inspiration behind it. There's a new category in this year's Grammy Awards ...

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ARQuesta Del SolSoul takes inspiration from jazz, hip-hop, Afrobeat, spoken word — even science fiction writing. ARQuesta Del SolSoul has a big goal. As they state on their Bandcamp page, the group ...

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There's a new category in this year's Grammy Awards for best spoken-word poetry album, and one of the nominees is a voice we've been hearing for decades. (SOUNDBITE OF SPOKEN-WORD POEM, "BLACK FIST ...