Tag: poetry
California Commemorates Juneteenth ’22
The holiday is recognition of June 19th, 1865, the day Union soldiers notified enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay, Texas that they were free...
Alice Walker & The San Diego Community College District
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, The San Diego Voice and Viewpoint
Recently, most of us saw with a degree of excitement that noted author...
San Diego Black Film Festival Returns For a Weekend of Inspiration
Local Black filmmakers were honored by the San Diego Black Film Festival (SDBFF) over the weekend of April 27 to May 1, a change...
A major collection of Black poems, books is coming to LSU
By Terell Wilkins, The Advocate
LSU has obtained one of the country's largest collections of African-American poetry, including a book once owned by Frederick Douglass...
Amanda Gorman’s Poetry Shows Why Spoken Word Belongs in School
Kathleen M. Alley, Mississippi State University; Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Cornell University, and Wendy R. Williams, Arizona State University
Editor’s note: Not long after Amanda Gorman...