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Title Author Year
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes 1994
Praise Dave Glenis Redmond 2015
Southern Cross, Thirty Feet High Junious Ward 2021
Love Poem in the Black Field Ariana Benson 2023
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1927
what we did while waiting for the rain Afua Ansong 2022
Abraham Lincoln Turns to Listen to the Lower Ninth Monifa Love 2022
The African Mother Francisco Acuña de Figueroa 1918
The Big Bell in Zion Theodore Henry Shackelford 1922
This Side Up Emanuelee Bean 2019
Strong Men Sterling A. Brown 1922
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The New Day Fenton Johnson 1922
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
Igbo Landing: Afro Atlantan Merfolk Candace G. Wiley 2019
’Weh Down Souf Daniel Webster Davis 1922
Memorial Wreath Dudley Randall 2009

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