MPBN Maine Public Broadcasting - Marc Bamuthi Joseph, is an arts activist. He is a National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, featured artist on the past two seasons of Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO. (April 24,2012)

04/24/2012

Joseph is one of 21 recipients of the first class of the Doris Duke Foundation Artist Awards for personal freedom and economic stability. He is here in Maine to perform as part of the Bates Dance Festival this Friday and Saturday in a ground-breaking project titled: The Living Word Project in "red, black & GREEN: a blues."(27:44)