Your ballads are necessary right now. It's a strange rabbit hole we're swirling through.

- Jaki Shelton Green, Poet Laureate of North Carolina

David Ballinger has a unique voice and is an extremely talented individual. We dare you to name someone you can compare his music to. His lyrics paint images and captivate the imagination like no other. 

- Neville's Quarter (Chapel Hill, NC) - Watch David's appearance on our Facebook Live show

From the dual lynching of Ms. Mary Turner and her unborn child in south Georgia, USA.

Some details of this event are in an earlier version of my song Bleached White Jesus.

 

"Bleached White Jesus" is a powerful shudder for me. It conjures the power of utterance and witness. It offers a different literacy and lens for remembrance. This is chilling fire of truth crawling forth.

- Jaki Shelton Green, Poet Laureate of North Carolina

 

  

From the multiple lynchings at Mt. Zion Camp Ground Methodist Church in Morven, Georgia.