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Amanda Seales is an Artistic Intellectual who creates edutainment through her independent entity Smart Funny & Black Productions. She seamlessly weaves together the scholarship of a Master’s degree in African American studies and an unwavering dedication to social justice, with her multi-faceted work as a creative on the stage, the page, canvas and more. A 30 year veteran in the entertainment industry, she left the limelight to focus her energy on creating works that shift culture, cultivate knowledge and strengthen community. With offerings like children’s show Ra Ra’s Radical Readers, book and one woman show, What Would the Ancestors Say??, and “Truth Translator” her impactful return to music after a 15 year hiatus, Ms Seales remains a prolific contributor to the decolonizing canon. Her visual art, tees, b books and other work is available via her store, AmandaLandExports.com. Steadfast Ms. Seales' walks the line of levity and gravitas, a force of nature always moving toward collective liberation, by any joke necessary.