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Ossie Davis reads Langston Hughes' Simple Stories

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June Jordan reading her poems

June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet, essayist, and activist. Jordan died of breast cancer at her home in Berke...

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“What attracts my psyche to this character?”

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Dubbed The "Bronze Muse", This Was The First Black Woman To Publish A Short Story

Dubbed the "Bronze Muse" in honor of her skills as both a writer and lecturer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is regarded as one of the most extraordinarily accomplished African American women of the nineteenth century.

the first black woman to publish a short story

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Who is the miseducated negro?

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so, i’ve decided to fast.

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Black is nature’s hiding place, where she stores her loot. 

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i want my memories how i lived them.

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