His early legacy in community-based global activism has warranted him to be the subject of a chapter in the book Beat of a Different Drum : The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life. Busboys and Poets is a community where racial and cultural connections are consciously uplifted a place to take a deliberate pause and feed your mind, body and soul a space for art, culture and politics to intentionally collide we believe that by creating such a space we can inspire social change and begin to transform our community and the world. Kymone's activism has been part of international delegations to Cuba, Kenya, Ghana, and Venezuela. He has published articles in The Washington Post and Ebony Magazine. In 2017, Kymone won the Public Media Journalists Association Award for his commentary in the radio documentary Anacostia Unmapped.
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In 2011, he co-founded We Act Radio, Washington DC's independent progressive radio station and TV studio.
He first authored a collection of poetry entitled, going on to become an award-winning playwright with multiple productions to his credit: Patriotic Treason: The Story of John Brown, Prison Poetry, ABMIT: Whites Only, and The Night Michael Jackson Died. Kymone is a writer, activist, and entrepreneur. But this novel threads the needle preety damn well by refusing to not acknowledge trauma just to make a piece of entertainment." - Shaka King, Director of Judas & the Black Messiah - Academy Award Winning film for Best Supporting Actor 2021. " There is great utility to escapist art.
He has only one weakness, his nymphomaniac son Saisir. Nineveh is ruled ruthlessly by Nimrod, the head of the Global Water Corporation that has a stranglehold on the world's water market. His daughter Evolon is his greatest warrior and Bethlehem is his most trusted ally. The Resistance is led by Ndbele, a gifted teacher and sage. With a mind altering drug introduced into the limited public supply, there were few resisters that dared to defy the ultimate fascist system. As a result, water has been priced beyond the affordability of the masses forcing them to collect rainwater which constitutes the new contraband. A massive global drought combined with an epic contamination of the world’s limited fresh water supply combined with the privatization of the remaining unpolluted aquifers has created a crisis of biblical proportions. Old cities are now underwater as a result of climate change and new cities have emerged. Nineveh is a conflict over water set in the future in a post-oil depleted dystopian society. Because we're just about trying to making sure that people are empowered, are improved somehow from - I mean, all this great knowledge that's around us.Busboys and Poets Books welcomes Kymone Freeman to discuss his new book, Nineveh: A Conflict Over Water. So, when it comes to working with the libraries or the schools around us, it's just a natural fit. So, that's what we're really looking about. It's for us to use these books, these great talents that these authors have, and to help make sure we get whether it's one, two, or three books into somebody's hand, that inspires them to do more.
And then they walk out feeling celebrated, empowered and wanting to do more. They feel themselves represented in the images on our walls, the books on the shelves. YOUNGWell, so investors don't necessarily like the idea, because it doesn't necessarily mean there's a high ROI on it, but for us, you know, a win for us is when whether it's a kid or, you know, an adult comes into the store and for them because we sell books that are written for - or about people of the African diaspora, that when they come into the store they feel the experience.
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