Meet our Speaker of the Month "Jessica care Moore"

We are very excited to start a new series called “Speaker of the Month.”

Our hope is that you will learn more about the incredible voices who are a part of the Truth Be Told roster.

For the month of August we are featuring internationally renowned poet Jessica Care Moore.

Jessica is currently performing her new work “God is Not An American” a powerful multimedia presentation including a live band and video. The book is currently available at Amazon.com.

This week we wanted to share her bio and one of our favorite clips of Jessica from HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Enjoy!




Internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/playwright/ actress and mother has returned home to Detroit. Jessica Care Moore is the five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner; since, she has featured on hip-hop mega-star, Nas' “Nastradamus” album and Russell Simmons' HBO Series, Def Poetry Jam.

After her legendary win on the Apollo stage, jessica Care moore was approached by several book publishing companies, but in 1997, she paved her own path and launched a publishing company of her own - Moore Black Press. Which has released her first book; “The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth,” and sold more than 20,000 copies. A few years later, she followed up with her second collection of poetry and essays, “The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto.” Her new book “God Is Not An American” fuses poetry, video, and live music to explore the concept of God, race, the war in Iraq, genocide, and other social and political issues.

Moore Black Press proudly published famed poets, Saul Williams and Shariff Simmons; Def Poetry Jam's co-founder, Danny Simmons, NBA basket-ball player, Etan Thomas, activist and poet, Ras Baraka and former Essence Magazine editor and author, Asha Bandele.

This bold and electric artist has shared the stage with the late Ossie Davis, CeCe Winans, Gregory Hines, Anthony David, Norah Jones, Amiri Baraka, Patti Labelle, Roy Ayers, Mos Def, The Last Poets, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Nikki Giovanni, Steve Harvey, Maya Angelou and many others. In 1999, she was honored as Woman of the Year by the Harvard Black Men's Forum.