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Tahani Salah

Known For: Poet and Activist
Country: United States

About

Tahani Salah is a performer, poet, and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She currently serves as a youth outreach coordinator and Board Member with Urban Word NYC. She is also a member of the Nuyorican Slam Team and author of the forthcoming book Respect The Mic.1 Tahani has also been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jams.2 She is passionate about peace and activism and carries that into the classroom as a high school educator, showing how life creates art and using it all as a tool of expression.

Tahani has also lent her talents to the cause of MDGfive.com, a website that uses the power of art and social media to increase community engagement in the fight to improve maternal health and reach Millennium Development Goal number five by 2015. Her contributions include a poem entitled “Mother, your strength is beyond compare”. She rhymes, “Your eyes are random and brown, blue and green. Your eyes are only one element of a canvas of beauty and this is what we are born from.”3

As an artist dedicated to bringing light and solutions to communities where people’s voices have been silenced, Tahani has performed at a number of the world’s famous stages including the Apollo Theatre in New York City to universities in South Africa and Germany.  She is a graduate of Columbia University.4

 

[1] Urban Word NYC: about us.
[2] http://www.alwanforthearts.org/event/193
[3] Mother, your strength is beyond compare.
[4] ibid.

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