Podcasts about lemon andersen

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… A spoiler FULL review of the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It! The “good”, the “bad”, the “random” and the “important”. Do we gotta have it or nah? This week’s hot list: We just wanna know "why?" Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj EVENTS JOIN US for our 4th annual Juneteenth Afterwork Kickback! Wednesday, June 19th from 6-10pm at VON. Click the event link and make a donation of your choice to attend: https://juneteenthkb.eventbrite.com JOIN Ms.Vixen at CareFreeBlackGirl Cookout again this year! Queen will be hosting affirmation and intention setting workshops, helping folks get their Bad bitch energy up! June 15th, 2-7pm @ Herbert Von King Park, Brooklyn, NY. FREE RSVP: http://www.msvixenmag.com/2019/05/ms-vixen-irl-carefreeblackgirk-cookout.html WE’LL BE at Afros and Audio Podcast Festival in Brooklyn, June 22nd! Text AFAUPROMO to 55222 for 25% off your festival ticket. Tix & info: https://www.afrosandaudio.com NOTES & EXTRA TEA Listen to She’s Gotta Have It writer Lemon Andersen discuss the Puerto Rico episode and working with Spike Lee on Latinos Out Loud podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qZvLAMiEw3YiMVvbbxtNu Writer Barry Michael Cooper’s open letter/sorry/not-sorry to John Boyega: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/shes-gotta-have-it-john-boyega-trash-writer-response-1202147258/?fbclid=IwAR3WodZ3kotTwKrak6K7-dQgMXR3VEUnS3OifI242XnBoQTaPVN03gl5U28 Listen to We Gotta Have It! Where we reviewed season one of the Netflix series “She’s Gotta Have It” : https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/sets/we-gotta-have-it-teawithqj This episode of Tea with Queen and J. was created, hosted & produced by Naima & Janicia with editorial support by Sam Riddell. Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, keep up with him at https://ohenecornelius.com Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

Lemon Andersen is a Tony Award winning playwright, poet and spoken word artist. Frequently featured on HBO's Def Poetry over the course of six seasons, he also starred in the original cast of Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, which earned him a Tony Award and Drama Desk nomination. As a spoken word artist, he's performed to sold-out crowds at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Apollo Theater, Chicago Theater, and Hollywood’s Kodak Theater; and his one-man show County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle had a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run at the Public Theater. On the big screen Lemon appeared in The Soloist with Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx, and he's made four movies with Spike Lee, including Sucker Free City, She Hate Me, Miracle at St. Anna and Inside Man. His 2011 TED Talk: Please don't take my Air Jordans won him widespread attention and praise. As a playwright, Lemon's new play ToasT is a tribute to the black oral narrative tradition of 'toasting', and takes place at Attica prison right before the 1971 uprising. The play has been commissioned by the Sundance Institute and will open at the Public Theater for a limited run on April 21st. For tickets, visit publictheater.com In this conversation, Lemon talks about growing up in poverty, and how PBS and a ballet program opened up a world of possibilities to him as a kid; why prison was the beginning of his training as a poet, the real life characters who inspired his new play ToasT and the importance of having creative control over one's work.

Three-time felon. One-time Tony award winner. Lemon Andersen is a pioneering poet whose words speak for a generation. But Lemon has landed back in the 'hood, living in the projects with thirteen family members and desperate for a way out. So he turns to the only thing he has left, his pen and his past. In this intricately crafted documentary, LEMON follows one man's harrowing journey to bring his life story to the stage while battling the demons from his past. Featuring a surprise turn by Spike Lee and music by Hip-hop phenoms Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Aloe Blacc. www.lemonthemovie.com Follow us on Twitter: @lemonthemovie Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LEMON-the-Movie/249656125076895 A film by: Laura Brownson & Beth Levison