I am running as a Democrat for a seat in the United States Congress, in the 10th Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York. PLEASE CHECK OUT www.kevinpowellforcongress.org
My other interests include working out, listening to and studying all kinds of music, learning to play my acoustic guitar, anything to do with hiphop culture and hiphop history, Spanish, biking, hiking, reading, traveling, watching and playing all kinds of sports, absorbing anything to do with politics and community building.
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Music
My favorite female vocalists of all time are Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Teena Marie, Madonna, and Mary J. Blige.
My favorite male vocalists of all time are Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra, Curtis Mayfield, John Lennon, Chuck D., Big Daddy Kane, Tupac Shakur, Bono, Michael Jackson, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, and Kurt Cobain.
My favorite music groups of all time include The Temptations, The Beatles, U2, Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Jackson 5, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Nirvana, and Outkast.
Movies
My favorite movies of all time are "A Streetcar Name Desire," "Nothing But A Man," "Claudine,", "The Color Purple," "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," "Antwoine Fischer," and "Saturday Night Fever."
Television
I watch the news nonstop, ESPN nonstop, and I love the History and Biography channels.
Books
My favorite books of all time are The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Soledad Brother by George Jackson; Black Boy by Richard Wright, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time; Gloria Naylor's The Woman of Brewster Place; Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem; Alice Walker's The Color Purple; Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God; Gloria Steinem's Revolution from Within; ANYTHING by bell hooks; and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Heroes
My sheroes and heroes are my mother, first and foremost; Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gloria Steinem, bell hooks, Dr. King, Susan Taylor, and all the regular common folk who make this planet go.
Kevin Powell's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Jersey City, NJ
Body type:
5' 10" / Slim / Slender
Ethnicity:
Black / African descent
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Children:
Someday
Education:
In college
Occupation:
Writer, Activist, Public Speaker
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Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Internationally acclaimed scholar and social critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh air." And of Kevin Powell the writer asha bandele says “When you consider the intelligence and breadth of Kevin Powell’s writing and activism, you come to the conclusion that there may be no better spokesperson and representative for a generation that has too long been counted out.”
Kevin Powell is a political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hiphop historian, public speaker, and entrepreneur. A product of extreme poverty, welfare, fatherlessness, and a single mother-led household, he is a native of Jersey City, New Jersey and was educated at New Jersey’s Rutgers University. Kevin Powell is a longtime resident of Brooklyn, New York, and it is from his base in New York City that Powell has published eight books, including his recent title, Someday We’ll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press). This book is a collection of provocative essays on freedom, democracy, justice, and race in America, as inspired by Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 presidential election, and September 11th. Powell is set to publish two books in 2008, No Sleep Till Brooklyn, his second volume of poetry; and The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life. Additionally, Powell is at work on his childhood memoir, homeboy alone, slated for 2010, and The Kevin Powell Anthology (2011), which will highlight the first twenty-five years of his literary career. Indeed, he has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews through the years for publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a founding staff member and served as a senior writer, interviewing and profiling, among many others, General Colin Powell and the late Tupac Shakur. Most recently Powell has been a Writing Fellow for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, as well as a Phelps Stokes Fund Senior Fellow. And Powell is currently a 2008 Democratic candidate for the United State Congress in Brooklyn, New York (www.kevinpowellforcongress.org).
A gifted and highly sought after public speaker, Powell has lectured on multiculturalism, building corporate responsibility, American and Black American history, the life of Dr. King, civil rights, American politics and civic engagement, sexism from a male perspective, leadership, social activism, the state of hiphop, redefining American manhood, and being Black and male in America, among other topics, at hundreds of colleges and universities, community centers, prisons, religious institutions, conferences, and festivals, as well as in corporate settings. Furthermore, Kevin Powell routinely offers his insights on a variety of matters, to TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet outlets in America, and abroad.
A fixture on the pop culture landscape the past several years, Powell was a cast member on the first season of MTV’s “The Real World”; hosted and produced programming for HBO and BET; wrote a screenplay; hosted and wrote an award-winning MTV documentary about post-riot Los Angeles; and was the Guest Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s “Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage”—which originated at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and of which Powell was the exhibition consultant—the first major exhibit in America on the history of hiphop.
Of paramount importance to Kevin Powell, however, is his activism. He has been a leader in some form or fashion for over twenty years, dating back to his days as a teenager at Rutgers University. He was a participant in the student-led anti-apartheid movement, the drive to end racism in South Africa. He has been at the forefront of police brutality and racial bias cases. He has worked for years around voting rights. Powell is one of the most prominent voices in the hiphop generation, and he has organized a number of concerts, mc battles, rallies, and forums that stress the use of hiphop as a tool for social change. As a result of his own past personal struggles, contradictions, growth, and a commitment to therapy and healing, Kevin has become a very outspoken critic of violence against women and girls, of violence in general, and he has been at the forefront of the movement to redefine American manhood away from sexism and violence. Powell also plays a key role in the Black male development arena, having produced, the past few years, among other things, a 10-city State of Black Men Tour, numerous Black male think tank sessions, and Black and Male in America, a 3-Day national conference (www.blackandmaleinamerica.org). Powell has taught, mentored, and counseled in schools, camps, prisons, and on the streets of urban America. He produces an annual holiday party and clothing drive every December in New York City that benefits the needy. And Powell was a central figure in Gulf Coast disaster relief efforts, facilitating the delivery of goods and services to the affected regions, and being a cofounder of “Katrina on the Ground,” an initiative that sent over 700 college students to work in the devastated region.
Of his life work Kevin Powell says, simply, "My life-calling is to be a servant for the people, period. Money, fame, status, personal achievements, and all that means very little to me when pain and suffering are still real on this planet. I am interested in the powerless becoming powerful.”
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