Purple Galaxy Presents Yolo Akili's New Black Same Gender Loving Spoken Word Music Video Concretely

Brutha Yolo,

I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH MY BRUTHA!!

What an INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL and SENSUAL PIECE OF MOTION ART about the Black Same Gender Loving (SGL) experience Concretely is.

MAN! The video is so beautiful. For some reason it reminds me of something the late Black SGL filmmaker Marlon Riggs would have done.

Spoken Word And SGL Artist Yolo Akili

And check out Yolo's website, too. I went to Amazon.com and downloaded Yolo's new CD Purple Galaxy back in September 2010. CDBaby.com and iTunes also has his music as well.

Yolo Akili's Purple Galaxy Spoken Word CD And His Preachers & Power Video Blog Commentary

Spoken Word (SGL) Artist Yolo Akili

I found out about Yolo Akili through the progressive and well put together Black SGL blog called Wandering Caravan.

BronzeBuckaroo, who runs the blog always has some interesting pieces on there, but I wanted to hi-lite Yolo Akili (a young, mad cute & attractive, and progressive-minded brutha) who's a spoken word artist.

Official Website: yolothepoet.com

And check out Yolo's website, too. I went to Amazon.com and downloaded Yolo's new CD Purple Galaxy. CDBaby.com and iTunes also has his music as well.

Also, below is his first video-blog and where he speaks out about Eddie Long the preacher down Atlanta. However, regardless of the outcome of the allegations against Eddie Long case, the point of Yolo's video is that there are larger issues that he touches on regarding the African community here in America. It's a very good 5 minute listen for sure.

Yolo Speaks Out On Preachers & Power

SAME GENDER LOVE Via The Subway/Train :-) Sweet Southern Style PDA (Public Display of Affection) In Atlanta, Georgia

The picture below of the two bruthaz (in Atlanta) from what I read was posted on TwitPic (whatever that is on Twitter) with 15,000 views as a sign of "hate". It was then re-posted by my friend Colin on Facebook as a sign of "LOVE".

I, TOO, AM RE-POSTING IT ON
Nubian Knights Network (N3) AS A SIGN OF LOVE!!

IT'S JUST A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE...
SIMPLY SWEET...
SAME GENDER LOVE

Sweet Southern Style
PDA (Public Display of Affection)



CANDLE OF LOVE
by
ROD PATRICK RISBROOK
{April ‘99}


As I light this candle
And the flame takes on multiple shapes…
In the form of your spirituality
My heart illuminates feelings inside me
Beyond the Nth degree of comprehension

The lux of light casts a warm shadow on the walls
And that is my reassurance
That your spirit is with me
And in my heart which comforts me

Images of your “so phine self”
In the coffee shop, sitting on the sofa {on Christopher Street}
Is projected in my “Id”, you know, the “mind’s eye”
Damn, you are one “phine” brotha!
The way your personality, your very persona,
Resonates itself onto the fabric of my being
Like a piece of woven tapestry or
Painting me like I was a nubian canvas
These brush strokes filling me with
Unlimited energy and shades of color rarely felt in life

Sometimes it’s hard to say what we feel verbally
But words on a page act as a conduit for me
Easily flowing like a stream of water
From my loving heart and hopefully to yours
If you even feel a fraction of what I feel
Then that is enough for me

Just like the moon in its lunar orbit
Sitting in its beautiful black sea with the stars twilighting
I hope that you too
Can become a constant in my life
In whatever capacity that may be
For you have made a definite impact on me
Like the sweet smell of honey{suck}le
Flowers in a forest meadow
Where beautiful green landscaping
Stretches off into the silhouette hills of infinity
The birds offering their chirps of pleasure
As their wings glide the currents of
Country fresh-like filled air
The ducks submerging their bodies
In the nearby translucent lake
And poking their elongated necks
Through the surface like a periscope, admiring the tranquility
And the rabbits expressing tumbles of joy by repeatedly
Leaping like jumping jacks through patches of thick green lawn
Accented with lavender Morning Glory flowers
Made natural by the photosynthesis
Of the spectrum of the sun’s rays

This is such a place
A peayceful meadow of land
In which we’ll hopefully meet, my brotha,
For the candle of light… of LOVE
Emanating from the nearby Egyptian pyramid
Transcends and harmonizes
Both our SPIRITS… and our very SOULS

A Candid Debate On Black Manhood, Same Gender Love & Civil Rights: Fact & Fiction Summer 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia

A Candid Debate On Black Manhood, Same Gender Love & Civil Rights: Fact & Fiction

A Summer 2009 debate in Atlanta, Georgia on homosexuality in Black communities, Civil Rights and attitudes behind Black resistance to affirming homosexuals, and some breakthroughs on the issue.