Tag Archives: "i am accused of tending to the past"

Lucille Clifton on Black History

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2023

Black history is under attack in a number of states. Clifton’s poetry can help us push back.

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Black Poetry–Next on the Right’s List?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 31, 2022

Many iconic African American poems could discomfit certain white audiences. Will the right target those as well as black history?

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Inspired by MLK and Lucille Clifton

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2018

To honor Martin Luther King, I share a hard-hitting but hopeful Lucille Clifton essay by a first-year African-American student who is fulfilling his dream.

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Trouble Recovering My French

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2018

Lines from Lucille Clifton’s “i am accused of tending to the past,” wrenched out of context, describe by experience with French at the moment

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Clifton Brings Black History Alive

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2015

Lucille Clifton insists on the telling the historical truth, even if it makes whites uncomfortable.

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