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Barter Theatre's 'Black Stories Black Voices'
Celebrate Black Cowboys Throughout History
Amanda Gorman on new book "Girls on the Rise"
Photo credit: gettyimages | washingtoninformer.com -- February 1, 2025
Former Georgia Representative Julian Bond and Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver once said that when Rosa Parks chose to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama, somewhere in the universe, a gear in the machinery shifted, and everything changed.
A gear-shifting moment.
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Dr. Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is the 30th person and the eighth woman to serve as the president-elect of ASALH. She previously served as the national secretary from 2016-2021. She is an American educator, author, radio host, speaker, documentary filmmaker and a professor at Loyola University Maryland and the founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, & Social Justice.
She is the author of five books, including: my mother’s tomorrow and the award-winning Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Francis Davis.
African Americans and Labor | White House Wednesdays
We are a strong-willed and stubborn people and since we have survived the Middle Passage and slavery, the Civil War and Jim Crow, we will survive what is happening in this country. We will keep rising, we will keep going forward, and we will continue to be the hope and the dream of our ancestors.
Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, ASALH President
Sneak Peek at Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Performance
The Legacy Of KDOT - A Kendrick Lamar Short Documentary
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"My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop."
--Kendrick Lamar (Illustration by Oliver Munday)
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"This year, may you find joy in every moment,
strength in every challenge, and magic in every new beginning."
JANUARY IS FOR
NATIONAL MENTORING
& MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
A Louisiana resident is using the power of spoken word's
to heal, and what science says about how poetry & the arts lift people's moods.
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REVIEW: Yaguareté White
REVIEW: The Colour of Time
REVIEW: Coachella Elegy
REVIEW: American Inmate
REVIEW: 2000 Blacks
REVIEW: Instructions for the Lovers
REVIEW: Modern Poetry
REVIEW: I Don’t Want to Be Understood
REVIEW: The Naming of Names
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A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
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Renowned poet Mary Jo Salter selects the poems for the 2024 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune).
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A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.
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Nikki Giovanni, a civil rights activist, a poet driven to give voice to the Black community, and a self-described “little old lady” with a tattoo that reads “thug life.”
And one fall, she had one message (written in verse, of course):
VOTE.
My House · Nikki Giovanni
The Way I Feel
℗ 2021 Modern Harmonic
Released on: 2021-10-29 Music
Publisher: Deniz Publishing (BMI) Composer: Nikki Giovanni
Composer: Arif Mardin
Keke Palmer
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A sometimes serious, often hilarious, and always inspiring guide that encourages young women to live a life full of ownership, confidence, and freedom from singer and popular Scream Queens and Grease Live! actress Keke Palmer, delightfully illustrated in four color with Keke’s favorite inspirational quotes, journal entries, and memes.
Tamika D. Mallory
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NY Times Best Books of the 21st Century
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
- Nelson Mandela
The New York Public Library
Best Books of 2024
nypl.org--November 30, 2024
Annual recommendations of the best books for adults, kids, and teens, curated by NYPL's expert staff and librarians, encompassing fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, poetry, kids’ pbooks in Spanish, and much more. Keep reading
Amazon Best Books of 2024 revealed:
Top 10 span genres but all
'make you feel deeply'
msn.com--November 30, 2024
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Authors Against Book Bans demand publishers prepare for 2025
lithub.com--November 30, 2024
Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers and creatives who “stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read,” released an open letter yesterday demanding publishers... Keep reading
Poetry Online
Are you an Artist, Author or Poet?
Are you an Artist, Author or Poet?
(poetryfoundation.org)
Resources for teaching and learning remotely.
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