Mayor Byron Brown announced Monday the appointment of Lindsey Lauren Visser as city historian and Aitina Fareed-Cooke as poet laureate during Women s History Month.
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, but it is still a male-dominated genre. Even though women who rap may not be on the radio as much as their male counterparts, plenty of talented women are making hip hop music, and right here in Buffalo.
Aitina Fareed-Cooke talks with Jay Moran. She is an artist and entrepreneur who was born and raised in Buffalo. In early life, she lived in a foster home and speaks freely about how that experience and the labels of low expectations attached to it drove her to find herself through art and creativity. Her Get Fokus'd Production is a media arts company that works, in part, to highlight emerging local artists.
Aitina Fareed-Cooke is an award winning photographer, teacher and recently has been recognized by Rapzilla online Magazine as "Woman Spotlight Artist of the Year".