Revolutionaries took BA Everywhere to the Grand Slam Finals of Youth Speaks’ Brave New Voices Festival on July 22nd. This electric and inspiring yearly event is a place for emerging spoken word artists from across the country to raise their voices to an enthusiastic audience — the Fox Theater in downtown Oakland was humming with excitement. We distributed 28 copies of CDs of BA’s All Played Out (with music by William Parker) to the poetry teams competing in the festival. 1500+ cards with the quote “No more generations…” (BAsics 1:13) were handed out to the crowd. And outside, before and after the event young people added their statements to the two quotes on internationalism. Some people told us they had read the copies of BAsics that teams were given last year. And one woman, on reading the quotes, said “This is what I’ve been searching for!”
