Owólabi Aboyade (William Copeland) is a cultural worker (Creative Calabash, AWE Society) and MC (Will See Music) from Detroit who served as Local Coordinator for the 2010 US Social Forum. He is a co-creator of Bullet*Train, a magazine chronicling Detroit’s revolutionary culture. Owólabi was a 2021 Radical Imagination Fund fellow advancing Detroit’s culture of racial justice via arts. Lee, Young Lee is his newest poetry book.
Power in the Darkness
Against the Current No. 236, May/June 2025
Shelter in a Literary Forest
Against the Current No. 234, January/February 2025
Movement Challenges
Against the Current, No. 222, January/February 2023
Disability Studies from South to North
Against the Current, No. 219, July/August 2022
Our Movement, Our Lives
Against the Current, No. 198, January/February 2019
Just Transition: Let Detroit Breathe!
Against the Current, No. 195, July/August 2018