Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African novelist, linguist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and a radically innovative poet who created a combination of traditional and Romantic poetry in the Zulu language
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Edward Archibald Markham (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008)
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Brenda Patricia Agard (20 August 1961 – 29 October 2012) was a Black-[british] photographer, artist, poet and storyteller
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#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackbritish #blackphotographers #blackartists #blackpoets #blackstorytellers #blackmastodon
Philip Parris Lynott (20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was [a Black] Irish musician, songwriter, and poet. He was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter for the
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner (August 18, 1970 – July 20, 2025) was [a US-er] actor, musician and poet.
…In July 2025, Warner died, aged 54, from drowning in the ocean off Limón Province,
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@josinaanderson, a Black Goddess wrote:
Cosby Alum Malcolm Jamal Warner's last message before transitioning from the terrestrial to the celestial:
[No matter what's going on, find a reason to smile and
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#tv #greattv #blacktv #blackactors #blackmusicians #blackpoets #blackmastodon
"Pretending to be Mexican, Native or South Asian helped Black Americans AVOID Jim Crow laws
Langston hughes passed as Mexican to avoid Jim Crow"
@PJenkins1931
#blackmen #blackamerican #blackpoets #blacktivists #blacknovelists #blackplaywrights #blackcolumnists #blackleaders #blackmastodon
This was an eye opening lecture on why we (I) need to lean-in more deeply on #BlackCulture as a source of humanizing #blackpower. #blackpoets #blackartists #blackscientists
John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Agard
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We are so blessed to live in a time when we can still experience the beautiful spirit of Maya Angelou. RIEP.
#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmemoirists #blackpoets #blackfirsts #blackhistory #blackmastodon
The title — Love Is A Dangerous Word — underscores how radical it is to love within and across marginalized communities. The Trump administration is willing to do everything in its power to break this solidarity because it knows that love is, indeed, dangerous to its an authoritarian regime.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/essex-hemphill-and-the-radical-power-of-black-queer-love-7e318d048a0c?sk=3d95c4bc9d02dbec7f384c5d26c509cc
"Werewolf Avoidance by Nikki Giovanni
I've never "blogged" before so this is new territory for me I do poet though and that is always somewhere in the netherland I think poetry is employed by truth I think our job is to tell the truth as we see it don't you just hate a namby-pamby poem that goes all over the place saying nothing
Poets should be strong in our emotions and our words that might make us difficult to live with but I do believe easier to love Poet is garlic Not for everyone but for those who take it never get caught by werewolves"
— Nikki Giovanni: Chasing Utopia, p. 80
Chinedu Okobi would have been 43 on February 13th 2025
California county to pay $4.5 million settlement in death of man shocked by deputies’ Tasers [on October 3rd 2018]
Apologies for referencing CNN when they are often anti-Black racist
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/09/us/california-taser-death-settlement-chinedu-okobi/index.html
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackpoets #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #BP_Feb_13 #blackmastodon
"A Robin's Poem by Nikki Giovanni
if you plant grain you get fields of flour if you plant seeds you get grass or babies i planted once and a robin red breast flew in my window but a tom cat wouldn't let it stay"
— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 119
#TodaysPoem #Poetry #NikkiGiovanni #BlackPoets #QueerPoets #BlackHistoryMonth
"The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nikki Giovanni
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence."
— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 51
"Sometimes by Nikki Giovanni
sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can't breathe"
— Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, p. 132
#Repost @blackliturgies
Sonia Sanchez. A reading from her on her birthday. In awe of the way she keeps her own rhythm instead of submitting to the pace of anyone else’s voice.
From Mirrors & Windows, October 24, 2001 with Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton, sponsored by The New School and Cave Canem Foundation. Full video found on Cave Canem Foundation’s youtube (link in stories).
In celebration of my father's 75th birthday today...I cooked up a little surprise for him...and you! Please help me show my dad some love for his birthday! (3/27)
#ExpressionsInLife #HarveyDKing #AfricanAmericanPoetry #BlackPoetry #BlackPoets #BlackAuthors #BlackMen #BlackFathers #Inspiration #LifeStories #HarveyKing #PoetryBooks #BookOfPoems #AmericanPoetry
One of my favorite #poems, discovered in college, is by #QuincyTroupe: Poem for Friends.
we sit at the brink of chaos laughing
we idle away time
when there is no time
left us
Full poem here: http://www.ecopoetry.org/quincy-troupe.html
