Reginald Latson aka Neli’s Cultural Campaign for Freedom Justice: Songs, Poetry, Visual Art, Short Stories

p Reginald span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="“Neli”" data-scaytid="5"ldquo;Nelirdquo;/span span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Latson" data-scaytid="7"Latson/span aka span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli’s" data-scaytid="9"Nelirsquo;s/span mother, Lisa Guthrie Alexander, family, friends with Leroy Moore, span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Krip-Hop" data-scaytid="17"Krip-Hop/span Nation, span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Emmitt" data-scaytid="19"Emmitt/span Thrower, span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Kaya" data-scaytid="21"Kaya/span Doug are calling for a cultural campaign to go hand in hand with the political/street activist campaign to help bring this young Black man with autism home from the wrongful incarceration and to reveal state abuse that was leveled on span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="23"Neli/span by police when they profiled him while he was just waiting on the library lawn in Stafford, VA./p p nbsp;We all know that artists have played an important role in bringing justice to individuals and our community as a whole from Al span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Hibbler" data-scaytid="33"Hibbler/span to Curtis Mayfield to Chunk D to Nina Simone to span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Letta" data-scaytid="35"Letta/span Neely.nbsp; However when it comes to our Black and other people of color disabled brothers and sisters the cultural activism have been lacking.nbsp; However recently the cultural activism by disabled people of color have been getting louder from Hip-Hop Black disabled activists like Keith Jones to Black Deaf Spoken Word artist, span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="ayisha" data-scaytid="37"ayisha/span knight and a lot more.nbsp; Now itrsquo;s time for us to not only do our arts for span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="25"Neli/span but also to sing, speak, draw, paint, write from our activist, people of color, Blackness and disability lingo/culture artistic creative palette without hiding or downplaying or pitying any part of the identities we share with span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="27"Neli/span.nbsp; If you are a Black man, a Black disabled man, a mother with a son, a mother that has a son with autism, a White disabled activist, a White mom with a son with a disability, a college student, a poet, a Hip-Hop artisthellip;we all can and should feel the pain of injustice that colors the story of span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="29"Neli/span./p p At this point we have poems, a Hip-Hop song and an upcoming video all by a handful of people from across this country but we want this handful to become a whole library full of writings, art and songs that will work hand in hand with the family and street activists to play the rhythm and color the path to freedom for span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli" data-scaytid="31"Neli/span.nbsp; Of course all the art will be approve by span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli’s" data-scaytid="11"Nelirsquo;s/span mother, Lisa, before it can be apart of emspan class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli’s" data-scaytid="13"Nelirsquo;s/span Cultural Campaign for Freedom Justice:nbsp; Songs, Poetry, Visual Art, Short Stories /em/p p strongSend art to:/strong/p p strongemspan class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Neli’s" data-scaytid="15"Nelirsquo;s/span Cultural Campaign for Freedom Justice/em/strong/p p strongAttn:nbsp; Leroy Moore/strong/p p strong1370 University Ave #316/strong/p p strongBerkeley, CA 94702/strong/p p strongOr/strong/p p strongEmail at span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="kriphopproject@yahoo.com" data-scaytid="1"kriphopproject@yahoo.com/span/strong/p p strongnbsp;/strong/p p strongNote: if your art is a song please make it radio version with positive lyrics and email it as an mp3 file.nbsp; Also if your art is written like poem, story and small drawing please also email it to us span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="kriphopproject@yahoo.com" data-scaytid="3"kriphopproject@yahoo.com/span.nbsp; Put your name and if you want contact info on the art or in the email etc./strong/p