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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka

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Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African novelist, linguist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and a radically innovative poet who created a combination of traditional and Romantic poetry in the Zulu language

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Edward Archibald Markham (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008)

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Brenda Patricia Agard (20 August 1961 – 29 October 2012) was a Black-[british] photographer, artist, poet and storyteller

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Philip Parris Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was [a Black] Irish musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter for the

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner (August 18, 1970 – July 20, 2025) was [a US-er] actor, musician and poet.

…In July 2025, Warner died, aged 54, from drowning in the ocean off Limón Province,

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@josinaanderson, a Black Goddess wrote:

Cosby Alum Malcolm Jamal Warner's last message before transitioning from the terrestrial to the celestial:

[No matter what's going on, find a reason to smile and

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"Pretending to be Mexican, Native or South Asian helped Black Americans AVOID Jim Crow laws

Langston hughes passed as Mexican to avoid Jim Crow"

@PJenkins1931

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This was an eye opening lecture on why we (I) need to lean-in more deeply on #BlackCulture as a source of humanizing #blackpower. #blackpoets #blackartists #blackscientists

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/22/trump-black-arts-culture-crackdown?CMP=share_btn_url

John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard

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We are so blessed to live in a time when we can still experience the beautiful spirit of Maya Angelou. RIEP.

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The title — Love Is A Dangerous Word — underscores how radical it is to love within and across marginalized communities. The Trump administration is willing to do everything in its power to break this solidarity because it knows that love is, indeed, dangerous to its an authoritarian regime.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/essex-hemphill-and-the-radical-power-of-black-queer-love-7e318d048a0c?sk=3d95c4bc9d02dbec7f384c5d26c509cc

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"Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni

I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing

Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves"

— Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia, p. 80

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Chinedu Okobi would have been 43 on February 13th 2025

California county to pay $4.5 million settlement in death of man shocked by deputies’ Tasers [on October 3rd 2018]

Apologies for referencing CNN when they are often anti-Black racist

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/09/us/california-taser-death-settlement-chinedu-okobi/index.html

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"A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni

if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay"

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 119

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"The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence."

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 51

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"Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni

sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe"

— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 132

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In celebration of my father's 75th birthday today...I cooked up a little surprise for him...and you! Please help me show my dad some love for his birthday! (3/27)
#ExpressionsInLife #HarveyDKing #AfricanAmericanPoetry #BlackPoetry #BlackPoets #BlackAuthors #BlackMen #BlackFathers #Inspiration #LifeStories #HarveyKing #PoetryBooks #BookOfPoems #AmericanPoetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AEJgBqmVI

One of my favorite #poems, discovered in college, is by #QuincyTroupe: Poem for Friends.

we sit at the brink of chaos laughing
we idle away time
when there is no time
left us

Full poem here: http://www.ecopoetry.org/quincy-troupe.html

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just trying to find some folks.

Need to make a thread for recent reviews. They'll go up on my website too, but are on Goodreads for now because I am having two technical issues.

So. ⭐ Thread for recent reviews ⭐

how the first sparks became visible by Simone Atangana Bekono -

Absolutely stunning chapbook translated from Dutch.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5142332214

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