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  2. Useni Eugene Perkins - Wikipedia

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    Useni Eugene Perkins is the author of "Hey Black Child", a poem that has been well-known in Black American households since the mid 1970s. The poem was originally a song that was performed during The Black Fairy, a play written by Perkins in 1974. Following the play's success, Perkins' brother Toussaint Perkins published a poster with the ...

  3. Negro Poets and Their Poems - Wikipedia

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    The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American life centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. A major aspect of this revival was poetry. [1] Hundreds of poems were written and published by African Americans during the era, which covered a wide variety of themes. [2]

  4. Keorapetse Kgositsile - Wikipedia

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    During the 1970s he was a central figure among African-American poets, encouraging interest in Africa as well as the practice of poetry as a performance art; he was well known for his readings in New York City jazz clubs. Kgositsile was one of the first to bridge the gap between African poetry and African-American poetry in the United States.

  5. I Am – Somebody - Wikipedia

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    "I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [1] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...

  6. Lucille Clifton - Wikipedia

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    Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) [1] was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. [2] [3] [4] From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. [5]

  7. Poetry of Maya Angelou - Wikipedia

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    Angelou was the first African-American woman and living poet selected by Sterling Publishing, who placed 25 of her poems in a volume of their Poetry for Young People series in 2004. [23] In 2009, Angelou wrote " We Had Him ", a poem about Michael Jackson , which was read by Queen Latifah at his funeral. [ 24 ]

  8. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the ...

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    As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood. The cast consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned.

  9. The New Negro - Wikipedia

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    The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]

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