Black Culture

our art.” something, we make it our own.”

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In 1995, Moore left Detroit for New York and saw a better opportunity to excel in her poetry from more spaces which welcomed her art.

“In Detroit, I just had to figure it out and make a space. And that’s the difference with being a Detroit artist, it makes us different culturally in how we get down with our approach. I think you can hear it in the urgency of my work.”

Another artist who exemplifies the importance of creating something that contributes to art and legacy as well as to Black culture in the community is Ro Spit, rapper and entrepreneur -- Roland ‘Ro Spit’ Coit, owner of Burn Rubber Boutique and Two18.

“Everything starts with us,” he says. Ro Spit looks to house and techno music which started here, yet when it caught popularity in global settings, its origin was soon forgotten. “I just love our culture always starts with us and even when it doesn’t, if we pull from