"Something has happened"

Serges Demefack is the founder of  Yemba USA  the nonprofit cultural organization that promotes Bamileke culture, language, and tradition.  He is a well-respected and influential leader who has dedicated his life to fighting for immigrants' rights. Currently, he works for the  American Friends Service Committee, a non-profit organization located in Newark NJ. He coordinates programs that center on fighting for human rights and ending detention and deportation. He is an activist well-versed in immigration and citizenship law. 

Apart from his profession Serges is a well-rounded artist, author, historian, and intellectual. Speaking with him he provided insights into how healing within our communities begins with becoming intentional. This requires grounding ourselves in traditions and creating intergenerational bonds. 

Bamileke art and activity book:

https://issuu.com/milrecre/docs/bamileke_art_and_activity_book_-_by

"Newark is Hip-Hop"

The underground synagogue of HIP-HOP is a communal Seder. It is a Passover that can be found in many Inner city basements. Just like Jesus turning water into wine this celebratory ritual has four individual elements that are grouped to transform history and the culture as we know it. But wait! This is not a history class-ok-maybe a page in the Bible, but this is about a group of men. Five distinctive young men on a path and a mission to find peace, freedom, justice, Love, and prosperity in a time and place where things are changing and challenging their spiritual strength. They are called Hidden Descent.  

Check this rhyme:

 "I make it hot, boiling, bubbling, 

like a pot full of dope shots,

 Head fever what I got

let it rock CMZ Hard Knocks

From the spot where ever th.....

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Red is a sacred color so there is no coincidence in the name, the person, and what he embodies with every stroke of paint. 

The nature of his art challenges the very definition and subjects surrounding the spirit of philosophy. He accredits this to his exposure of, "both the hood and academia". Using his academic knowledge, life experiences through stages of "boy-hood" to "man-hood", and observation developed intuitively,  his visual prose incites meaningful conversations surrounding the black experiences both local and globally.

Reaching beyond the social and systemic language and lingo governing the various perception of blackness Red breaks down his process, motivations, and philosophy in regards to his most recent exhibition,  "A people to heal" and project "The Stimulus Package Tour"-where he traveled to 40 different States in the United States of America and produced a breath-taking body of work from  which he tokens as reparations.

To learn more About Local Newark International Artist and Philosopher Red, VISIT: www.themuseumofred.com