These poems explore issues that should unite the people. Eriwayo is explicit when she says in her introductory note: “These are an invitation to look beyond the surface differences and then embrace ...
When Edim, then 11, saw footage of Maya Angelou reading ... and thrill” of reading Angelou, “who led me back to the person I had once been.” She memorized poems such as “Still I Rise ...
Drawing on a childhood of abuse and segregation, writer and author Maya Angelou moved the nation. Works such as her 1978 poem, “And Still I Rise,” explored the effects of racism and sexism on ...
Nigerian Canadian poet, playwright and spoken-word artist Titilope Sonuga released her new album, Sis, earlier this year, ...
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