Welcome to episode four of "I Remember A Place Name..." a podcast about erased, displaced, and under-threat Black community and spaces, hosted by Cheeraz Gormon featuring poet, author, teacher and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin of San Francisco, CA.

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, "Someone's Dead Already" was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.

Purchase his book "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" at: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100115800

Episode written, produced, and edited by Cheeraz Gormon

Music produced and provided by Brian Hughes