What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

In the Instagram reel, Naval narrated lines from her poetry book, Black Wind and Other Poems, which make you contemplate on the many facets of life — known and unknown. A milieu of emotions and ...

For the 42nd year, students put their knowledge of Black residents’ contributions and accomplishments to the test.

Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mum Bett ... provided one pathway to freedom, many Black women also engaged in intellectual resistance, using poetry, memoirs, and religious expression to ...

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

His latest book of poems, “Doggerel,” is forthcoming ... Born to a poor, Black family in Indiana and known as the Black Cyclone, he set world records, drew crowds and became the world cycling ...

Here’s Pound’s most famous imagist poem: Petals on a wet, black bough. Williams embraced the image poem and believed poetry ...

THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE ... BALTIMORE TAP DANCER LAWRENCE JACKSON, BEST KNOWN AS BABY LAWRENCE. HE WAS A LEGEND TO US IN THE TAP ...

who were known as the Haudenosaunee Clan Mothers. Although they did not know it, the middle schoolers were in the midst of their first lesson of “Black Studies as the Study of the World,” a ...

Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty/Universal History Archive Create art in the style of famous Black artists ... dance, song, poetry and cultural reflection, refreshments served, presented ...

Eight years after 17-year-old Carter Davis and his friend were killed in a random attack, one of Michele Davis’ former ...