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Jeffers was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and raised Catholic in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. [3] [4] Her mother's family is from Eatonton, Georgia; her father's family, she recounted, was "black bourgeois and fair skinned" (her father, Lance Jeffers, was also a poet), and they were not happy when he married a working-class, darker-skinned woman.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is the 2021 debut novel by American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.It explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Sister Lilith" Evie Shockley, "separation anxiety" Leone Ross, "Tasting Songs" Nalo Hopkinson, "Greedy Choke Puppy" Amiri Baraka, "Rhythm Travel" Kalamu ya Salaam, "Buddy Bolden" Akua Lezli Hope, "The Becoming" Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine" Nisi Shawl, "At the Huts of Ajala" Henry Dumas, "Ark of Bones"
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Contribution to Children, World Peace and/or Human Rights 2005 Mr. Matthew Albert: Australia Contribution to Children, World Peace and/or Human Rights 2005 Ms. Olivia Richmond Giles: Scotland Humanitarian and/or Voluntary Leadership 2005 Mr. Publio Arjona Diaz: Panama: Personal Improvement and/or Accomplishment 2005 Mr. Tokushi Nakashima: Japan
Witter Bynner Fellowships are administered by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, an organization that provides grant support for poetry programs through nonprofit organizations.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
The AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the board of directors of the American Film Institute on February 26, 1973, to honor a single individual for their lifetime contribution to enriching American culture through motion pictures and television. [2]