Dasan Ahanu

Artist | Curator | Scholar

Press

  • December 6, 2020

    Come Hear North Carolina

    Mic Check: Black Hip Hop Artists Showcase A New Wave Of North Carolina Protest Music

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    February 13, 2019

    NC Governor’s Office

    North Carolina to Honor African American Artists, Musicians During Black History Month Reception on Thursday

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  • November 28, 2018

    WUNC

    Broadening the Definition of a Hero

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  • March 21, 2018

    Indy Week

    A Report From the First Weekend of the Bull City Black Theatre Festival

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  • July 19, 2017

    ABC11

    Hip-hop as literature: Durham Scholar Dasan Ahanu returns from Harvard

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  • Issue 37, Spring 2017

    Tribes Magazine

    Black Art Don’t Dance No More
    Everything Worth Fighting For

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  • Mar 18, 2017

    The News and Observer

    Religion, Race and Resistance: Two Triangle poets take up the cause

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  • Negus Who Read

    “Everything Worth Fighting For” - A Book Review

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  • Aug 12, 2016

    WUNC

    Stories with a Heartbeat

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  • November 18, 2015

    The Independent Weekly

    Indies Arts Awards: Durham poet Dasan Ahanu uses hip-hop education and action to inspire more work

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  • July 16, 2015

    Clarion Content

    Interview with Dasan Ahanu about his stunning new spoken word album

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  • July 16, 2015

    WUNC North Carolina Public Radio

    Building A Black Arts Community In North Carolina

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  • June 27, 2015

    News and Observer

    On Culture: Why can’t we figure out how to talk about racism?

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  • June 25, 2015

    News and Observer

    A send-off for Harvard-bound hip-hop master Dasan Ahanu

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  • May 20, 2015

    New Black Man in Exile

    Left of Black with Dasan Ahanu

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  • May 15, 2015

    WUNC Radio

    Cultivating a Literary Ecosystem

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  • May 13, 2015

    The Independent Weekly

    A feast of authors, booksellers and publishers in the Durham debut of the Read Local Book Festival

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  • March 25, 2015

    The Independent Weekly

    Durham poet Dasan Ahanu named Harvard fellow

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  • October 24, 2012

    Creative Loafing Charlotte

    Hip-hop and the Million Man March

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  • July 25, 2007

    Indpendent Weekly

    Durham is becoming a national hotbed for spoken-word poetry

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  • January 31, 2007

    Campus Echo (NCCU)

    Hip hop summons all

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  • June 23, 2004

    Independent Weekly

    "Putting Poetry Where his mouth is"

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