On #WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first African American writers to celebrate Black speech and vernacular in his works.
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Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Monday, March 21st, 2022, based on the âA Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendarâ published by Workman Publishing.
Though several O.G. rappers jump-started their careers by selling CDs out of the trunks of their cars, the real O.G. was 19th century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar â he sold his poems to people riding in the elevator he operated!
One of the first African American writers to garner international fame, Dunbar celebrated Black speech and vernacular in many of his works.
In 1903 he wrote the lyrics for In Dahomey, the first all-African American musical produced on Broadway, but his best-known legacy â other than the poem âWe Wear The Maskâ â most likely springs from 20th century poet Maya Angelou, who âsampledâ Dunbarâs poem Sympathyfor her autobiographyâs title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Links to these sources and more are provided in todayâs show notes and in the episodeâs full transcript posted on goodblacknews.org.
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According to nbcnews.com, the United States House of Representatives passed the CROWN Act, which would ban hair-related discrimination on Friday. Measure H.R. 2116 passed 235-189 in a voteâŠ
[Billie Holiday, from March 23, 1949. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten. from the Yale University Archives at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library] by Lori LakinâŠ
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