His work often focused on the lives of ordinary Black people, capturing their struggles, dreams, and resilience. Why “The ...

Through her poetry, Angelou delves into the painful history of racial discrimination faced by black people, particularly black women, in the United States. She uses her art to highlight the quest ...

In the second half of the poem, Parker flips that assessment, relating it to the problem of the police system and the trauma that it causes Black people. Parker’s poem spans 15 seconds yet ...

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. People attend the "emergency protest" organized ...

Holland High School held a poetry contest in honor of Black History Month ... for every time one of our people got hurt. For every time they put a knife through our heart and twisted it ...

Blue Peter commissioned some special poems by black spoken word artists to celebrate black history and to take action and work together to build a better future for people of all races in the UK.

"So I like to remind them of the appreciation we have for them, even if people don't say it very often." Fabu emphasizes the importance of sharing poetry and literature specifically during Black ...