Raise Your Voice

Elsayed, an artist, writer, and Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College, makes text and image-based work that synthesizes an internal and external experience of place, connecting the ephemeral to the concrete.

Paired with a Newark voice:
Ras J. Baraka, The Book of Baraka

In this Audible Original that redefines the political memoir, hear how Ras J. Baraka the mayor of Newark, New Jersey grew from spoken-word artist to school principal to successful politician. The Book of Baraka is the story of how one man found his voice and how each of us can find our own calling.