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  2. 31 Celebrities Turning 50 in 2024 - AOL

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    Scroll down for a look at famous people born in 1974 and celebrating a milestone birthday this year. Celebrities Turning 50 in 2024. IMAGO / PA Images. ... Holiday Shopping Guides.

  3. Sonia Sanchez - Wikipedia

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    Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.

  4. Kevin Young (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Young is also the author of For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, Blues Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995–2015 (2016) [11] and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Blues Poems (2003), Jazz Poems (2006), and John Berryman's Selected Poems (2004). [9] His poem "Black Cat Blues," originally ...

  5. Margaret Britton Vaughn - Wikipedia

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    Year Published Publisher Pages Notes 50 Years of Saturday Nights: (poems) as told by the Old Spry herself 1975 Magluce Publishing Company 52 Grand ole Saturday Nights 1990 Bell Buckle Press 96 Kin 1994 Iris Press 75 The light in the kitchen window: poems 1994 Iris Press 74 Acres that Grow Stones: poetry 1996 Bell Buckle Press 53

  6. List of African-American holidays - Wikipedia

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    The birthday or arrest of Rosa Parks March 22 or April 16 or May 20 or July 3 or November 1: Emancipation Day: 5: 2005: Florida (2021), [6] Maryland (2013), [7] Puerto Rico, Washington, DC (2005), [8] United States Virgin Islands (2017) [9] Commemorates the Emancipation of slaves March 10: Harriet Tubman Day: 1: 2000: Maryland (2000) [10] The ...

  7. Negro Poets and Their Poems - Wikipedia

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    It was dedicated to "Black and Unknown Bards" and in compiling it Kerlin sought high quality poetry but also "at least one fundamental quality of poetry, namely, passion." Negro Poets and Their Poems also includes biographical information about and some photographs of the poets whose work is included. In 1986, the scholar Vilma R. Potter noted ...

  8. Poetry of Maya Angelou - Wikipedia

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    The poems in the second section of Diiie, for example, are militant in tone; according to Hagen, the poems in this section have "more bite" [36] than the ones in the first section and express the experience of being Black in a white-dominated world. DeGout states, however, that Angelou's poems have levels of meaning, and that poems in the ...

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