The Story
Rajnii Eddins has been writing and performing since he was eleven years old — the youngest member of the Afrikan American Writers Alliance, reading his mother's poems back to her with feeling before he had any of his own. More than thirty years later, he works as a teaching artist, spoken word poet, and emcee across classrooms, community centers, conference halls, and stages, building spaces where people can be honest with each other. He co-founded Vermont's Black Experience, an annual statewide celebration of Black culture and community resilience, and his oral history project Vibrant Lives has been preserving intergenerational stories in ways that academic institutions rarely do. His debut on Umbrella Union, You Might Remember Me, is the music coming from the same place as the rest of it — and there's more on the way.
