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The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

By N. Scott Momaday
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Let us celebrate being alive, having a place in the grand scheme of things, feeling connected to the earth and all its inhabitants.

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We Went to a Support Group for Black People in America

Alzo Slade participates in an “Emotional Emancipation Circle,” an Afrocentric support group created by the Community Healing Network and the Association of Black Psychologists. It’s a safe space for Black people to share personal experiences with racism and to process racial trauma.

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2020
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Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement

Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-American poetry.

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Nikki Giovanni
1970
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The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968–1998

This omnibus includes Nikki Giovanni’s first seven volumes of poetry from her early years, 1967 to 1983: Black Feeling Black Talk; Black Judgement; Re: Creation; My House; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; and Those Who Ride the Night Winds.

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Nikki Giovanni
2007
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Audre Lorde: “A Woman Speaks”—Reading at Amerika Haus Berlin 1984

Audre Lorde came to Berlin as a guest professor at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute at the Free University of Berlin in 1984. That year she gave a reading at the annual conference of the German Association of North-American Studies which took place at the Amerika House.

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Audre Lorde
2016
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Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems

All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924–1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to widespread praise.

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James Baldwin
2014
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