"To Tell My Mother's Story"
"Natasha Trethewey was the US poet laureate from 2012 to 2014. Her Pulitzer prize-winning work highlights the racial and historical inequities of America and the ongoing personal expense of those injustices. Her memoir, Memorial Drive, tells the story of her mother Gwendolyn’s second marriage to a man who abused and then murdered her when Trethewey was 19 years old."
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Resources for Supporting and Uplifting the Black Community
The Community Justice Action Fund: "The Community Justice Action Fund is changing the conversation on gun violence prevention by leading with the people closest to the pain of everyday gun violence."
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund: "The National Trust and its partners are working to raise $25 million to create and invest in the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund—the largest preservation campaign ever undertaken on behalf of African American history."
The Harriet Tubman Collective: "A Collective of Black Deaf & Black Disabled organizers, community builders, activists, dreamers, lovers striving for radical inclusion and collective liberation." |
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Poetry Daily stands with the Black community.
We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality.
We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world.
Black Lives Matter. |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jennifer Chang on "The World"
"For days I could go nowhere. The temperature dwelled stubbornly below freezing. The roads were too slick to walk on. My car was encased in ice, a solid blue cube, and, quite comically, a red bicycle, leaning against a nearby shed, seemed to be waiting for me. I sat at the window, wearing two sweaters, looking at it." |
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