T. Rasul Murray

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T. Rasul Murray, a poet, essayist and short story writer, is a native New Yorker who has lived in Brooklyn for almost forty years. He is the father of two sons who, he says, are by far, his best poems. His two grand sons are his constant joy!

His work has appeared in African Voices, Black World, The Journal of Black Poetry, Expressions, Esprit, Black Creations, McCalls Magazine, and other magazines and journals both here and abroad. His work has been anthologized in A Penny A Copy. He has performed his poems in a variety of spoken word venues in the United States and abroad. He is currently adapting a poem of his about African life in early Manhattan, as a multi-media performance presentation and as a film.

A life-long cultural and political activist, Rasul served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, staffed the 1963 March on Washington and has been a community organizer and manager and administrator of a variety of community programs in New York City. He was the founding Director of the Lander Street Community Center in Newburgh in the early 1960s and served, later in that decade, as Assistant director of the South Yonkers Youth Council.

An early internet pioneer, Rasul moderates Cross Posts Information Exchange, an internet news and information list. He serves as co-chair of the Digital Literacy Alliance and as a member of the board of Navy Yard Houses, a Fort Greene cooperative of 159 units.

Rasul is a licensed New York City Tour Guide who conducts private tours of his city, including a tour of Old Manhattan and Its African Past, Harlem, and an introduction to New York for the first time visitor.

He serves as an an interpretative volunteer at the African Burial Ground National Monument, conducting interpretive tours of the monument and walking tours of the old city.

Categories: Literary Arts, Multi-Discipline, Theater, Activism, Conceptual, Fiction Writing, Media / Communications, Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction Writing, Performance Art, Playwriting / Screenwriting, Poetry, Storytelling, Traditional / Culturally Specific