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...
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In Praise of the Ancestors by Mazisi Kunene
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with death. We just move on to another...
“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 significant political poems of the late twentieth century. The poem—an act of restoration and...
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...
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 many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and...
I Am Accused Of Tending To The Past by Lucille Clifton
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own hands. i did not.this past was waiting...
What’s the Hour of the Night? by Queen Mother Audley Moore
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the dawn of dayBut the day is not...