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Title Author Year
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton 1991
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978
An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2) Moncho Alvarado 2023
On the day of the trial Black America lost, again KB Brookins 2023
The Systemic J. Estanislao Lopez 2023
Lateral Violence Prageeta Sharma 2023
Identity Voodoo Abiola Haroun 2023
Larry’s Savvy Wad Kenward Elmslie 1971
That Morning after the Assassination of Malcolm X Paul Mariani 2022
The Moon Is in Labor Gail Wronsky 2023
No Room to Form John S. Blake 2023
revolution of angels Marwa Helal 2022
Bare Minimum or: To-Do List for White America KB Brookins 2022
Wild Thing Nickole Brown 2018
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022

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