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Gina Belafonte is an award-winning Producer, Director, Actress, Educator, Prison Abolitionist, and Freedom Activist. Co-founder of Sankofa.org, Gina has been using art as a tool for over 25 years to communicate messages of hope and civic engagement. On this podcast she is joined by two of her collaborators - Diane Luby Lane, CEO of Get Lit - Words Ignite and LA based poet Monique Mitchell and we look at the role of poetry, art in general, courage and the power of the word in times of repression and fear. Their new stage show is "If I Awaken In Los Angeles" at the Ford Theater.

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