Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires ...

Camille T. Dungy, the editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, calls her book a first of its kind. The nearly 200 poems in the anthology reach back to the mid-1700s, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of ...

World-renowned American poet, author, and educator Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81. According to AP, Giovanni died with her lifelong partner, Virginia (Ginney) Fowler, by her side, which was ...

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LSU has obtained one of the country's largest collections of African-American poetry, including a book once owned by Frederick Douglass and a collection of works by 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner ...

Eli Imadali / OPB Lakayana Yotoma Drury is an educator, social entrepreneur, community advocate, writer, poet, filmmaker. He now adds to this list as “editor-in-chief” of the publication of “503.” He ...

There is no doubt that the world will be looking for Black dandelions now that the corporation AT&T, in a search, found the video of Flint, Mich. Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown reading her Black Dandelion ...

World-renowned American poet, author, and educator Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of 81. According to AP, Giovanni died with her lifelong partner, Virginia (Ginney) Fowler, by her side, which was ...

I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B.

Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami and the Jim Crow era. Tom Dolphens illustration. Tom Dolphens Star file illustration I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black ...