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In Celebration of Juneteenth – Our Beautiful Table

June 18, 2020 by blackstate No Comments
In honor of Juneteenth please enjoy the following work honoring our ancestors and honoring our ongoing struggle for true freedom...
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Thank You Toni

August 6, 2019 by blackstate No Comments
We’ve lost Toni Morrison but still Toni Morrison joins the best of us. They can go by a single name....
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Africa by Maya Angelou

April 4, 2019 by blackstate No Comments
Thus she had lain sugar cane sweet deserts her hairgolden her feetmountains her breaststwo Niles her tearsThus she has lainBlack...
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Dinner Guest: Me by Langston Hughes

March 26, 2019 by blackstate No Comments
Dinner Guest: Me I know I am The Negro Problem Being wined and dined, Answering the usual questions That come...
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Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

March 26, 2019 by blackstate No Comments
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a...
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Comes The Colored Hour by Langston Hughes

March 26, 2019 by blackstate No Comments
Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia,Dr. Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser,A. Philip Randolph the High Grand Worthy.In white pillared...
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