Black history month is more essential these days than it has been for a while given Trump’s desire to erase it. Black writers are important in keeping it alive.
Tag Archives: Black History Month
Fighting the Erasure of History
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A Dream of Black and White Together
Spiritual Sunday My mother and I went to hear St. Olaf’s sublime choir at Sewanee’s All Saints Chapel Thursday night. (This in spite of the fact that we both attended St. Olaf’s archrival, Carleton College.) Amongst the program’s “peace on earth” offerings was an arrangement of Langston Hughes’s “I Dream a World.” I share it […]
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we have always loved each other
Ushering in Black History Month with a lovely Lucille Clifton poem about the need to keep believing in oneself.
Clifton Brings Black History Alive
Lucille Clifton insists on the telling the historical truth, even if it makes whites uncomfortable.
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