JUNE JORDAN

• Jamaican-American
• Bisexual
• American Poet
• essayist
• Teacher
• Activist

June Jordan dedicated to write about issues based on race, gender, representation and/or immigration. One of her most important commitments are “Skyrise for Harlem” in collaboration with June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller. Both planned an environmental and social urban planning where they wanted to develop the term “environmental quality and economic social health are mutually constitutive” meaning that they wanted affordable housing where culture displacement  would not be a side effect, this would be called “Skyrise for Harlem”. Both images wanted to eradicate the image of poor communities suffering discrimination. June Jordan being a poet and a Black English Advocator was able to not only draw this plan but also write it describing how this project would be conceptualized. The idea of this project consisted on building over 100 levels, building bridges that would cut through each tower in a way to connect them along with green areas, and as I agree with June Jordan she mentioned that this would “Account the psychological state of living in an area deemed a ghetto”, the Sky Rise would have avoid Homelessness and people being evicted from the neighborhood.