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.
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