- HD 1080
- Runtime: 100m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Marc Levin
- Stars: Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Lawrence Wilson, Beau Sia
- keywords: restored, preserved film
- Production_studio: Off Line Entertainment Group
- Slogan: Words make sense of a world that won't.
- providers: Kino Film Collection
- The Slam is featured in the top rankings of 1998
- #74 in Top Drama Movies of 1998
Raymond Joshua, a young black performance poet, is arrested and imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge in a Washington, D.C. jail. Although the confining prison walls do little to shield him from danger, it is within those walls that Raymond establishes his identity, strength, and voice and meets a prison gang leader and a prison writing teacher, Lauren Bell. Bell inspires Raymond to use the power of creative expression to free himself from the struggles and demise of the Black male as another victim of the judicial system.