Sonia Sanchez

For Farrah Rahaman, the scholar bringing Immanuel Wilkins to the Penn campus, his project Blues Blood "feels big and stirring like the ocean." That seems even truer with the venerable poet Sonia Sanchez and author Imani Perry in the mix.

Poetry. Motion. Sound. For most of the 85 years Sonia Sanchez has existed, she has known and embraced the power of words and music, eventually merging…

June 15, 2020. In 1998, bassist and bandleader Christian McBride composed The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons as part of a musical…

When London-born bass player Anthony Tidd teams up with Philly-born, spoken-word artist Ursula Rucker, a special type of combustion occurs. Both create…