Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

One of my favorite poems of Dunbar’s is “We Wear the Mask,” which beautifully portrays the weight that many Black people carry as they flow in “double consciousness” as a means of ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Poets from the San Diego community came together for an inspiring virtual evening hosted by Counselor Judy Sundayo and ...

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

"I like to say I'm a poet and I know it," she said. "That's the only rhyming I ever do." Fabu writes to encourage, inspire and remind. "I really want to encourage Black people around the world of ...

“The thing I like about Poetry Rising is I hand-select the people,” Pitters said. “I know their work. And for this, I wanted it to be women, especially for Black History Month. These are ...

Trinity College Dublin may have been founded by Queen Elizabeth I, but for over 400 years every building on the prestigious ...

After his death, I finally ventured into writing those short poems and realized they were ... no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers ...