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16th November 2022

If Everyone Has A Gun

If everyone has a gun then must everyone run, hide, shake, tremble, sweat, sob, be sad, mad, take lives, take away hope, futures, dreams?

30th October 2022

Anti-Racism Work is a Full-time Job

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25th October 2022

Digging For Justice

I dug my brown hands into the dark soil. They seemed to disappear, sink into the dirt.  Earth and I became one.

SoundCloud • 15th October 2022

Ridin' On The West Side

A smooth, enjoyable collaboration between Rockford, IL music producer and lyricist and MC Christopher D. Sims a.k.a. UniverSouLove that captures the flavor, the images, and the sights of their hometown, Rockford, Illinois. Meant to bump in your rides as you ride around!

9th November 2020

Considering Darius Lovehall (from Love Jones) A Role Model for Black Men

8th November 2020

A Time for Healing in the United States of America

We need the feeling of our bones, our numb souls, to come back to us  so that we can create a new forward. Black women need healing. White women need healing. Gay, lesbian, queer, and ransgender people need healing.

18th October 2020

Vote For Change: A Poem by Christopher D. Sims

But during the protests, the marches, the many vigils we have learned that these freedoms we have been fighting for are only illusions...

11th September 2020

October State of Mind

We are communicating in profound ways because in us we can see better days, we can see everyone getting along, we can devise platforms where we all belong.

7th September 2020

Rhymes Against Racism: Part II

Insignificant/ In your leadership/ You're not equipped/ Black people you don't want to deal with/ The country needs a shift!/

7th September 2020

Rhymes Against Racism: Part 1

You should take your thoughts and thinking and evaluate/ Let these rhymes motivate/ As a scholar of rhyme, reason/ Now is the time, the season/

30th July 2020

Dear Black Child at Farm Camp

Dear Black child, Young Black man when was the last time this country saw you breathing easily? Without stress when you took breaths?

18th July 2020

I Wrote My New Book

This is my story. This is written oratory. This book is grammar in all its glory. This book is poetry. This book is a memoir. This book, simply put, is who I are.

14th July 2020

If Racism was Treated as a Disease - a poem by Christopher D. Sims

If we are to treat racism as a disease, a sickness then let's get down to business about the business of racism; the lives it has cost; the cost of Black bodies put up for sale at the auction block; the cost of separating and degrading Black families; the hurt, pain  it continues to maintain.

14th July 2020

White Tears - a poem by Christopher D. Sims

are white people willing to to turn those turns into action, into change, into movements, into revolutions, into solutions, into monetary distributions,  into conclusions where we see real equity?

25th June 2020

Aunt Jemima: To Sale Your Product

23rd June 2020

Of Nigerian And Cameroonian Ancestry - A Poem

This poem takes a look at my lineage through the lens of ancestry, which captures my Nigerian and Cameroonian ethnicity.

SoundCloud • 21st June 2020

Where Is A Black Man's Love?

A song produced and composed by Rockford, IL's Evon J Sams with a spoken word poem written by UniverSouLove a.k.a. Christopher D. Sims. The lyrics speak for themselves - but I hope you can answer the question and ponder the meaning of this song, this collaboration.

16th June 2020

Where We Need Black Lives to Matter

Focusing on the most basic, simple places where our lives needs to matter.

14th June 2020

Of African Mud and Love - a poem by Christopher D. Sims

Digging deep into my African ancestry, I speak directly as an African in America who is not completely from here and understands the power of images and storytelling.

28th May 2020

Minneapolis Is Burning: a poem by Christopher D. Sims

Heads are turning, the smoke is increasing, the pain is seething start believing that Minneapolis is burning!