The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City announced on Thursday Mahogany L. Browne will be its first poet-in-residence. The 45-year-old’s work will be featured this month through the residency titled “We Are The Work.” Browne said that she was “honored” to be chosen as the Lincoln Center’s very first poet-in-residence. Delighted. Honored. […]
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Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, the stylist for the widely acclaimed cover, wrote on social media that Gorman’s feature is about “embracing all that is so beautiful about is, of rejecting the constant policing of how we Black womxn show up in the world.” The stylist added that Gorman’s Kente gown speaks to cultural unity across the African […]
Get away [garbled] for what? Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. I’m tired of it. It stops today. Why would you…? Everyone standing here will tell you I didn’t do nothing. I did not sell nothing. Because everytime you see me, you want to harass me. You want to stop […]
Beloved Chicago poet Leslé Honoré has released a new poem about Meghan Markle following the spellbinding interview done by Oprah Winfrey on Sunday. Published in USA Today, Honoré’s poem tackles the racism Markle faced personally and the bigotry she had to deal with around her newborn son. Honoré said she wrote the poem as she watched the […]
Join contributors to “Black Nature,” the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets including the writers Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Evie Shockley, Natasha Tretheway, Camille Dungy and Al Young. They read from their work and participate in a discussion on the literary and environmental issues raised by the new anthology. [5/2010] [Humanities] [Show ID: […]
If you are a copyright holder that would like something removed from my channel please message me on YouTube & I will respond so you do not need to file a DMCA Copyright Takedown Request with YouTube. Thank You. James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social […]