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Category: Black History Month

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  Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment (Part 3): Gwendolyn Brooks

  Welcome to the third segment of Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment: June 7, 2017, marked the centennial of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks, (she died December 2000), who in 1950 became the first African American–and at the time the youngest American–to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her…

  October 9, 2021
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  The 2015 Bid for Power and History in Savannah (Georgia, USA) – Bright Skylark Literary Productions

  There’s a lot at stake when it comes to casting a vote for the mayor of Georgia’s first city. Candidates not only stand to make history but to shape it some very powerful ways. (photo of Edna B. Jackson courtesy of Diva Magazine) Journalist Patricia C. Stumb, in a 1999…

  November 17, 2015
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  When the Lyrical Muse Sings the Creative Pen Dances – Bright Skylark Literary Productions

  If you’re a regular reader of my national African-American cultural arts column, you may have noticed that I have not been posting articles as frequently as I once did. The reason is simple enough. Having reached a certain point in the research for my current book-in-progress (at least one of…

  September 22, 2015
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  Red Summer: Text and meaning in Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” (part 1 of 4)

  The summer of 2015 marks the 96th anniversary of the publication of Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay’s masterful poem, “If We Must Die.” This essay is presented in commemoration of that literary milestone and in remembrance of the extraordinary Red Summer of 1919 that inspired it. There were many good…

  June 4, 2015