Nikesha Breeze - Book Talk + Film Screening at Sankofa
Sat, Nov 08
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Join author Nikesha Breeze in conversation with Professor Greg Thomas on A Mutiny of Morning, followed by a special screening of Stages of Tectonic Blackness | Return:Remember.
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
About The Event
A Mutiny of Morning: reclaiming the Black body from Heart of Darkness
Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and spiritual road map. The resulting poems are sizzling purifications, violent restorations of integrity, pain, wound, bewilderment, rage, and, sometimes, luminous generosity.
The violent, scathing white supremacy of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is traversed page by page and word by word in this brilliant prayer/poem—a work of reclamation, redemption, rescue, and repossession.
Stages of Tectonic Blackness | Return:Remember
Stages of Tectonic Blackness is a many-staged performance project conceived by GROUND SERIES member Miles Tokunow with collaborators Nikesha Breeze and Lazarus Nance Letcher; it…
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