New hope for youth through spoken word poetry and Aubrey Barnes
Aubrey Barnes is a 27-year-old spoken word performer from the Quad Cities; a producer of shows for local artists; founder of an after-school program; and a teacher.
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Category: Columns
Live local musicians deserve our dollars
When musicians perform, audience members only see the final portion of their work. That show,...
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Bullying victims need adults to speak up
Whenever I reflect on the many moments that I felt less than my peers in school, the sinking...
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Black activism and ‘Facebook jail’
Dec. 16, 2017: Â Reported by a disgruntled person for a 90-day-old post about a bag of crackers....
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Being black in ‘progressive’ Iowa City
After living in the South most of my life, I decided to leave Texas back in 2012, decidedly headed...
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