Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric

“Majestic. Grounded in astute interpretations of how speech acts function in history, this book is an exemplary model for future inquiries...

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Adam of Ife: Black Women in Praise of Black Men

This ground-breaking anthology of poetry contains an informative foreword by the editor, Naomi Long Madgett, which traces the historical i...

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His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute

He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around the world, a beacon of hope, courage, and persever...

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Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World

A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across his...

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African-American Poets: 1700s-1940s

This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times to the Harlem Renaissance and the World War II era, paying...

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African-American Poets, Volume 2: 1950s to the Present

This volume examines contemporary African-American poets from Robert Hayden to Rita Dove to the new voices establishing themselves at the ...

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Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry

Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts we...

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Car...

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June Jordan: Her Life and Letters

June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, to Mildred and Granville Jordan, Jamaican natives. During her life, she became ...

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Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters

Writing and composing with honesty and humanism, Lucille Clifton is known for her themes of the body, family, community, politics, woman...

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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop by Saul Williams

In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discove...

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The Book of American Negro Poetry

James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson compiled this work because it was his belief that a group...

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War. It considers the rel...

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Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry

From the ancient Egyptian inventors of the love lyric to contemporary poets, Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry gathers ...

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African Love Poems and Proverbs

This lyrical collection comprises love poems, songs, and proverbs from a multitude of African countries and traditions. Ranging from joyou...

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Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans

Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry. Just prior to the Second World War, and even more explosively in t...

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Maya Angelou (People in the News)

Presents the life and works of the author of ''I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' and discusses her struggles as a woman, m...

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African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927

Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of L...

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The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer, Containing the Best Prose and Poetic Selections By and About the Negro Race by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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The Wings of Oppression by Leslie Pinckney Hill

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