Patrice Lumumba: An Anthology of Writers on Black Liberation

Tureeda Mikell, Story Medicine Woman, author of The Body Oracle of Memory (2024 Black Lawrence Press) and Synchronicity: Oracle of Sun Medicine ( 2020 Nomadic Press), nominated for the California Book Award poet, is an educator and activist for holism, Black Panther Alum named Woman of Truths. Published in numerous anthologies, most recently, Black Fire 1 & II, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, with Uncommon Ground, Storm Warning, City Light's Second Stutter, Freedom Lifted, U. C. B. Digital Papers E-Zine, Stanford University’s Extreme -Bay Area Poets, The Maynard, Temba Tupu, Emory University, and The EastSide Arts Alliance’s Patrice Lumumba Anthologie and most recent release, Poetry Is Bread,  2025.

A youth  advocate, Mikell has published over 73 student anthologies from five bay area counties since 1989.  She has traveled or Zoomed her work extensively across the country and internationally from Africa, Egypt, Mexico to China. Mikell has served and performed as Poet in Residence for San Francisco’s Randall Museum, De Young Museum, Museum of the African Diaspora, Oakland Museum, Lawrence Hall of Science, and is a U. C. Berkeley ’96 Bay Area Writing Project Fellow, who has opened, or published with, such iconic poet activists as  Amiri Baraka, cult film star, Saul William and Kenyan writer, professor and Pen International Award winner Ngugi Wa Thiong'o who announced, Mikell is a word magician. She has been a featured poet at the De Young Museum’s Soul of A Nation, Fire Thieves for  the American Academy of Poets.  KQED, KALW, KPOO,  Lewis Jordan at Large, Freight and Salvage, Black Panther 55th Anniversary, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday, and was Eth-Noh-Tec, Nu Wa delegate poet/storyteller in Beijing, China in collaboration with the University of Beijing and has recently received Berkeley Poetry Festival’s 2024 LifeTime Achievement Award and celebrated one of  Maya Angelou’s unveilings  at San Francisco Public Library, in recognition of, I know why the caged bird sings. And was given a Lifetime Achievement Award  from the City of Berkeley’s Poetry Festival in 2024.