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Mustafa Abdus-Salam
He started writing poems when he was around fifteen at the Fredrick Douglass Center in Harlem, publishing some of is work in the Jet, Ebony, and then in Essence and Black World. At eighteen he met ...voir plusHe started writing poems when he was around fifteen at the Fredrick Douglass Center in Harlem, publishing some of is work in the Jet, Ebony, and then in Essence and Black World. At eighteen he met Professor and writer Audre Lorde in a English class NY City College who loved his poems and encouraged him write. He helped form a poetry group ‘the Third World Poems’ and they travelled throughout the city and to many American cities as well throughout Canada reading poetry. At around nineteen he met the Writer and Poet Nikki Giovanni, along with Ossie Davis who helped The Third World Poets refine their skills. He studied history in college and received a BA at Fordham University in Manhattan. Developed his own Health Center, New Life Institute where he taught yoga, tai chi, workshops in writing and healthy eating. Presently urban farms in New Jersey continues to practice and teach yoga and tai chi. At sixty-four he has returned to his passion writing about history and this book is his first, telling of the legacy of African People in America. Mustafa is an American of African, Caucasian and Indian heritage. He embraces that wonderful heritage, making friends and companions with people from all walks of life and cultures.voir moins