of one black man, but to an American society still bound to a tragic history of racism. Raw-edged honesty at its most revealing and intense.” In 2018, he published My Mother, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and The Last Stand of the Angry White Man, in which he examines the major issues of the times, challenging society’s complacency over the concerns that plague Black America, and turning an unflinching lens upon himself. In doing so, The Washington Post says, “He poignantly sketches his journey from a violent past that included physically assaulting his girlfriend and being placed under a restraining order, through reading feminist writers, speaking, writing, talking with circles of men and many hours of therapy to emerge as an introspective ‘man,’ in the very best definition of that noun - even as he acknowledges that he is still a work in progress.” In 2020, Powell released When We Free the World, as an Apple Books e-book citing the desire to get away from “horrific” and “unfair” publishing industry contracts that had prevented him from earning any royalties on his prior books. Powell curated a collection of essays, blogs, poetry, and journal entries that comprise the anthology, 2020: The Year that Changed America, published as an e-book in January, 2021. The book is dedicated to the memory of Miguel Algarín, the main founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café, to the victims and survivors of COVID-19, and to essential workers. Proceeds are being donated to the youth writing program, Urban World NYC. In 2022, Powell published a poetry anthology entitled "Grocery Shopping with My Mother." He appeared on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition in December of that year to discuss the book and his family history which inspired the title poem. Activism African-American social networking tool BlackPlanet featured Powell as "Riser of the Month" in February 2011 for his support of the African-American community. Politics In 2006, Powell launched his first bid to unseat Edolphus Towns in New York's 10th congressional district, located in Brooklyn, discontinuing his campaign in July of that year. In 2008, Powell ran for Congress again, in a campaign that was backed by Chris Rock and what ABC News described as "big names from Brooklyn's 10th district". During the campaign, Towns made frequent reference to Powell's self-professed early history of violence against women. These references were addressed by Powell in an open letter to Ed Towns, where