Durham Artist Shirlette Ammons Recognized for Her Many Talents

Durham, North Carolina-based shirlette ammons is master of the backslash—that is to say she’s a poet/musician/activist. One of those busy few with a message and method who seems to find time in the day the rest of us assumed a fable Beyonce’s team imagined.

—“Shirlette Ammons on collaborating with Indigo Girls & Meshell Ndegeocello for “Language Barrier” Anne Alexander, After Ellen