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Black Experience

Black Experience

Letters to the Black Woman

By Tyrell Collins

A scholarly and thoughtful epistolary celebrating black female identity and inventorying the rousing literature it produces.

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In The Beginning - The Foundation of First Love

By Damon Percy

Yearning and wrenching, the heart twitches and beats harder.

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kabrina green again and again and again. . .

By LurLynn Franklin

Pregnant with a flowering reach.

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kiss my black @$$

By LurLynn Franklin

White institutions fall in line before those who’ve been criminally neglected.

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po’ baby los’ in the 60’s

By LurLynn Franklin

Protective mothering is always in fashion.

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I've Got Your Back

By Eva Louise

With imagery and words that lilt and lash, an indigenous poet stands with the black community against bigoted forces.

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Abuses Amended art

Abuses Amended

By Jessica Edwards

Indignities and exploitation are righted with sharp words and a blunt defense.

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America is Weeping art

America is Weeping

By Diana Franco

Barbarism is given free rein in a gun-happy nation.

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Yellawoman

By Jessica Gallion

On the margins and in darkness, the survivor takes adversity as a necessity for growth.

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The Implications of Giovanni's Room on Black Boy Queer Identity

By Khalil Anthony

After Baldwin, in a voice that shakes and sounds a freedom knell.

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