There It Is by Jayne Cortez
My friendthey don’t careif you’re an individualista leftist a rightista shithead or a snakeThey will try to exploit youabsorb you confine youdisconnect you isolate youor...
Category : Poems
In Praise of the Ancestors by Mazisi Kunene
I have come to appreciate that African wisdom recognizes that there are other unseen forces in the universe apart from the creator. The Egun (Ancestors)...
“SPEECH TO THE YOUNG, SPEECH TO THE PROGRESS-TOWARD” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be...
A Poet To His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson,
Tiny bit of humanity, Blessed with your mother’s face, And cursed with your father’s mind. I say cursed with your father’s mind, Because you can...
“I’ve come to take you home”: A Tribute to Sarah Baartman by Diana Ferrus
I’ve come to take you home is one of the most important poems of political significance in the 20th Century. Written in 1998, by Diana...
10 Poems By Langston Hughes You Should Know
Langston Hughes, considered the unofficial Poet Laureate of African-Americans, was a prolific writer, who published ten volumes of poetry. One of Hughes’s most widely anthologized...
A Black Wedding Song
This love is a rich cry over the deviltries and the death. A weapon-song. Keep it strong. Keep it strong. Keep it logic and magic...
For Freckled-Faced Gerald by Etheridge Knight
“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...
Listen Children: Seven Poems by Lucille Clifton
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...
10 Iconic Poems by Maya Angelou Every Black Person Should Know
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,...