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Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journey to Freedom
Phillis Wheatley Peters was born in West Africa in 1753. At the age of eight, she was kidnapped and enslaved. Phillis's true story will stir your heart. From the plains of Africa to a wharf in Boston, where she was sold into slavery. With brilliance, courage, and faith, she overcame her circumstances to become the founder of African American literature! Her genius showed many early American leaders that slavery is evil.
The first African American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies, Wheatley learned to read and write English by the age of nine, familiarizing herself with Latin, Greek, the Bible, and selected classics at an early age.
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Afua Cooper My Name is Phillis Wheatley
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Poem # 22 Peaceful Path
Poem # 22
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Peaceful Path
By Floyd Boykin Jr
4-22-2025
As I embrace evolution
I embrace the beauty of nature.
I have learned to smell purple irises
and to value its existence.
Wind, insects and birds
are the conductors of melodic tones.
God is the ultimate visual artist
The earth is a well painted canvas
I have painted a picture
of consistent peace.
loving the trees, the breeze
and loving me.
I hug the spirit of divinity.
Dreaming of tranquility
Hoping that humanity
will finally embrace serenity.
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James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video
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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.(born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution."
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award–nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.
Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only African Americans, but also gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance. Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement.
Soul! or SOUL! (1967–1971 or 1967–1973) was a pioneering performance/variety television program in the late 1960s and early 1970s produced by New York City PBS affiliate, WNET. It showcased African American music, dance and literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul!
Ellis Haizlip was born on September 17, 1929 (to January 25, 1991). He was a pioneering broadcaster, television host, theater and television producer, and cultural activist. Often host of Soul!
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