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      Angelo Soliman: Father of Pure Masonic Thought

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      Abram Petrovich Hannibal: A Nobleman of Russia

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      Isaac Burns Murphy: One of the Greatest American Jockeys of All Time

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      Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

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      Ayiti: An Interview with Professor Bayyinah Bello

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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

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      August 1, 2017
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      Lt. Anna Mac Clarke: A Military Pioneer

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      Elizabeth Jennings Graham: A 19th Century Rosa Parks

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      The best line from the Black Panther Movie

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      For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

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      Listen Children: Seven Poems by Lucille Clifton

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      Jackie Ormes: The first professional African American woman cartoonist

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      Charles Alston: Reclaiming identity through art

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      Henry Ossawa Tanner: First internationally acclaimed African American artist

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Kehinde Wiley

For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight

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April 19, 2018
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"I was lying in my cell reading one night, when all the guys came in. I had been working on the prison newspaper and had gotten off work early. When they came in, the word came that a young brother had been rap...
Lucille Clifton

Listen Children: Seven Poems by Lucille Clifton

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June 27, 2017
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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a prolific and widely respected African-American poet. Clifton was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Pri...
Maya Angelou

10 Iconic Poems by Maya Angelou Every Black Person Should Know

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April 3, 2017
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Maya Angelou lived life after life in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. However, she...
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I Am Accused Of Tending To The Past by Lucille Clifton

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August 29, 2016
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i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed baby, and i with my mother's itch too...
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What’s the Hour of the Night? by Queen Mother Audley Moore

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July 27, 2015
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After four score years of freedom Our so-called leaders say The the race has made great progress And we face the dawn of day But the day is not quite dawning Millions of my peoples stand Pleading at the b...
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The Colored Soldiers by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

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July 18, 2015
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If the muse were mine to tempt it And my feeble voice were strong, If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. I would sing a song heroic Of those noble sons of Ham, Of the gallan...
Quawekazi Loyiso-Mkize

I Am a Black Woman by Mari Evans

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July 16, 2015
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night I saw my mate leap screaming to the sea and I/with these hands/c...
Swagger Frank Morrison

Where Have You Gone by Mari Evans

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July 16, 2015
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Where have you gone with your confident walk with your crooked smile why did you leave me when you took your laughter and departed are you aware that with you went the sun all light and wh...
Door of Justice

For My People by Margaret Walker

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July 6, 2015
Poems, Poetry on the Page
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees...
The Right Kevin WAK Williams

Filthy Negroes by Jacques Roumain

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June 29, 2015
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It is said that there was a great deal of anger and even rage in the writings of Jacques Roumain, especially in his poem, "Filthy Negroes" Well, it's like this:we othersnegroesfilthy negroeswe won't take any...
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    Did You Know that an African-American woman went to the Yukon in the gold rush of 1897?

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    The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I ...
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    Fine Art artist and historian, Diane Britton Dunham, has receive global recognition for her Gullah/Creole inspired art. ...
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    Amelia's song is one of the most fascinating stories in the African-American drama of the Maafa/Atlantic slavery. A Mend...
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    "Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your ...
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