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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Talks about Experiencing Racism with Coach Wooden (5/18/17)

By John Wooden — 2017

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about his book, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, including Coach Wooden’s reaction to witnessing racism.

03:17 min

Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet

A young poet, attuned to the social problems of contemporary America, reveals her thoughts on the black experience.

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Nikki Giovanni
1976
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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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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

In Make Me Rain, Nikki Giovanni celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism.

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Nikki Giovanni
2024
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Selected Poems

By 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing across the United States, and more and more African American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social equality for all.

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Gwendolyn Brooks
2006
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The Flag of Childhood: Poems From the Middle East

In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore.

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Naomi Shihab Nye (editor)
2002
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