Saul Williams is an angry guy. Eight years of the Bush administration’s policies, compounded with America’s ongoing racial issues, incited the spoken-word poet’s furious latest CD, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, which Williams recorded with unlikely collaborator Trent Reznor, who gave the album his trademark industrial sheen. Tonight the poet/musician, who came to fame in the 1997 film Slam, will speak about art and politics as part of UWM’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Haitian singer/guitarist Rosemond Jolissaint opens.
An Evening with Saul Williams
Tonight @ UWM Student Union, 7:30 p.m.
