Princess Pe’Tehn Raighn-Kem at only 3 years old passionately reciting “Hey Black Child.” #younggiftedandblack #blackgirlsrock #outofthemouthofbabes #bkackhistory360tho #listentothepoet #proudparents
Yet Do I Marvel I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus …
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Please donate https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZPEYVFR698EKA https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012135126607&fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgeofReason1 https://www.patreon.com/examinfo?ty=h Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Roxie, Mississippi, and published his first short story at the age of 16. Later, he found employment with the Federal Writers Project and received critical acclaim for Uncle Tom’s Children, a collection of four stories. He’s well known for …
POETRY OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU – FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com – A selection of 7 favorite poems by Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862). an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection …
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Martin, Coretta, and Rosa: A Musical Portrait (text by Lerone Bennett, Jr.) · Jonita Lattimore, Lerone Bennett, Jr., Chicago Sinfonetta · Paul Freeman A Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ℗ 2007 Chicago Sinfonietta Released on: 2007-01-15 Auto-generated by YouTube.
“Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen, read by Todd Hellems (Student, Doraville, GA), as part of The Favorite Poem Project
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Summary: This is very short, but it is a book with lots of pictures, and it will be even better if you can look at the pictures in the book while you listen to the verses. There are many short verses: the first verses tell you how to make a blottentot with a blot of …
American Sonnet (35) by Wanda Coleman boooooooo. spooky ripplings of icy waves. this umpteenth time she returns–this invisible woman long on haunting short on ectoplasm “you’re a good man, sistuh,” a lover sighed solongago. “keep your oil slick and your motor running.” wretched stained mirrors within mirrors of fractured webbings like nests of manic spiders …
Written and read by Wanda Coleman November 13, 1946 — November 22, 2013
Summary by Wikipedia: “Over the River and Through the Wood” is a Thanksgiving song by Lydia Maria Child. Written originally as a poem, it appeared in her Flowers for Children, Volume 2, in 1844. The original title of the poem is, “A Boy’s Thanksgiving Day”. It celebrates her childhood memories of visiting her Grandfather’s House.
Full text: Now Lonergan appears upon the boards, And Truth and Error sheathe their lingual swords. No more in wordy warfare to engage, The commentators bow before the stage, And bookworms, militant for ages past, Confess their equal foolishness at last, Reread their Shakspeare in the newer light And swear the meaning’s obvious to sight. …
Written and read by Wanda Coleman November 13, 1946 — November 22, 2013
Full text: I saw her in a Broadway car, The woman I might grow to be; I felt my lover look at her And then turn suddenly to me. Her hair was dull and drew no light, And yet its color was as mine; Her eyes were strangely like my eyes, Tho’ love had never …
