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As the first published African American poet, Phillis Wheatley-Peters paved the way for future Black writers to express ...
Gov. Jim Pillen appointed Omaha author and performer Jewel Rodgers as Nebraska's new state poet.Rodgers, 27, is the youngest and first African American person to hold that position.And no one ...
Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate, discusses life, loss, joy and sometimes being mistaken for the hired help.
The Reverend Pauli Murray was a visionary legal scholar, civil rights activist, poet, and the first African American woman ...
Rhea Carmon, the first African American poet laureate of Knoxville, is a mentor, a motivational speaker and a math teacher. However, she finds herself teaching valuable lessons through her poetry.
WHAT TO KNOW. Poet Jupiter Hammon’s birthday and Black Poetry Day will be celebrated at Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd’s Neck on Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Hammon, who was born into slavery ...
In Lloyd Harbor, at a former plantation, visitors honored Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man who lived and worked there in the ...
Giovanni is one of the world's most famed African American poets, gaining notoriety in the late 1960s as part of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni's work touched on civil rights , the Black Power ...
Charleston's International African American Museum wrapped its second year with 150,000 visitors, new programs and a $200,000 ...