References included the work of poet Sonia Sanchez; their love of New York punk-funk act Les Savy Fav and a discussion of Dizzy Gillespie's Presidential campaign of 1964 among a litany of others.
One of her more recent contemporary endeavors includes a spoken word interlude on "Hope is an Open Window" a song co-written by Diana Ross from her 1998, "Every Day is a New Day" album.
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Sanchez is also known for her innovative melding of musical formats—like the blues—and traditional poetic formats like haiku and tanka.
It was compiled with the participation and support of the Shakur family, contributors include Maya Angelou, Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Powell, Common, E-40, Sonia Sanchez, and others.
Sonia Gandhi | Roger Sanchez | Sonia Sotomayor | Sonia Sanchez | Samuel Sánchez | Mark Sanchez | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | Marta Sánchez | Maria Quiñones-Sanchez | Sonia Dada | Lawrie Sanchez | Aníbal Sánchez | Sonia Noemí | Sonia Nieto | Sonia Mkoloma | Junior Sanchez | Hugo Sánchez | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | Eddie Sanchez | Diego Sanchez | Dennis Sanchez | Alex Sánchez (boxer) | Sonia O'Sullivan | Sonia Nassery Cole | Sonia Melchett | Sonia Escolano | Sonia Agarwal | Roberto Sánchez Ramos | Poncho Sanchez | Miguel Ángel Cordero Sánchez |
It has brought students to Paris to meet in scholarship with world-renowned artists whp are connected to the intellectual, artistic, and historical Black French experience, such as Nina Simone, Archie Shepp, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sonia Sanchez and Toni Morrison.
People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.
Among those associated at various times with the OBAC Writers Workshop are founding member Don L. Lee (now Haki Madhubuti), Carolyn Rodgers, Angela Jackson, Sterling Plumpp, Sam Greenlee, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and many other writers of national stature.
William Worthy, along with actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, writers James Baldwin, Julian Mayfield and John Killens, poets Maya Angelou, Sonia Sanchez and Leroi Jones, historian John Henrik Clarke, and photojournalist Gordon Parks was one of the most important political allies of Malcolm X.