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Stay tuned! BET News will also be airing a special interview with Autum and
her father Batin Ashante later this week….
CONTACT:
Tiffanydenise PR/ Publicity Manager for
Autum Ashante
TELE:
1.866.302.7570 or tiffanydenise74@yahoo.com
Autum
Asante is a 7-year old child not unlike many children of African
descent who show keen interest in the artistic forms and expressions
such as Hip Hop and Poetry. She is blessed to have
a father who has taken a strong interest in her education and
development.
Autum
is very talented and her intention has never been to offend anyone
within or without her community by the use of her poetry and song.
It is unfortunate that her performance at the Peekskill Middle
and High Schools has been interpreted this way by some elements of our
society. Her presentations during Black
History Month are always geared toward exposing the truth of the
African experience in
Autum,
though her poetry has refused to detach the horrors of slavery and the
brutality of the African Slave Trade and enslavement from Black
History especially during her performances in the month of February.
This child who has learned and studied the horrors of her past
as an African in
Autum
is not being manipulated by her parents. She has kind and loving
parents who like any other try to exert a positive influence on her
life as much as they can. However, her love of the
arts and her adeptness at poetry is her God given talent and one which
she has chosen to use for the positive development of her race and her
community.
Autum
who is extremely talented for her age is a student of Black
Nationalism. As expounded and lived by the Right
Excellent Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, Sojourna
Truth, Nat Turner, Malcolm X, and
Elijah Muhammad….She realizes that the Africans who stayed alive
during the atrocities of slavery and the middle passage did so by
holding on to the hope of returning to their families one day and like
her ancestors before her, she feels indebted to honor their memory by
working for the realization of their dream of African Redemption.
Meet
Autum for the first time or see a familiar face as this
poet shares her story her purpose and her mission tonight
on CNN’s Paula Zhan. PLEASE keep in mind that
this segment may get pulled at the last minute pending breaking news.
However if it doesn’t air tonight It will be aired ASAP!
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