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Adrian Matejka will be first Black editor of Poetry magazine The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Source link
The Linda Gooden Legacy Award is named for the 2006 Black Engineer of the Year. A founding president of Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Gooden was a respected business leader in aerospace and defense during her 40-year career. While heading Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global solutions unit, she had responsibility for 30,000 professionals who provided […]
When an email from Beyoncé’s office first landed in Warsan Shire’s inbox, she assumed it was some kind of prank. It wasn’t. Beyoncé – the real Beyoncé – was inviting Shire, a 27-year-old British-Somali poet from Wembley, north-west London, to collaborate. The result was the revolutionary 2016 visual album Lemonade, on which Shire is credited […]
Sunday is Black Poetry Day. It is the birthday of Jupiter Hammon, who was the first African American to have poetry published in the United States. The WHAS11’s app; Download it now Click to expand UP NEXT This day celebrated the importance of black heritage in poetry, and recognizes the . . .