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Title Author Year
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton 1991
One Today Richard Blanco 2016
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978
Confession Countee Cullen 1927
Black Dandelion Semaj Brown 2019
The America I Know Could Use a Good Cry Marcus Amaker 2020
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. June Jordan 2018
Amos (Postscript, 1968) Margaret Walker 2018
Amos, 1963 Margaret Walker 2018
Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen Ruth Ellen Kocher 2016
Microwave Popcorn Harmony Holiday 2015
from Citizen, VI [My brothers are notorious] Claudia Rankine 2014
Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Shafro Terrance Hayes 1999

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