Sonia Sanchez has been played on NTS in shows including Moor Mother, featured first on 29 April 2017. Songs played include A Black/Woman/Speaks, Liberation / Poem and Black Magic.

Sonia Sanchez is an African American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. Born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9, 1934, she has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books