In this system, even the experiences of pregnancy and birth were tinged with the specter of social and physical death. In an act of resistance, Black people developed a poetry around death that ...

Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her works ... Often known as the “Princess of Black Poetry,” Giovanni championed ...

Johnson wrote that he wanted to capture the “tempo of the preacher” without using black dialect ... This rings true in the poem “Go Down, Death,” in which God commands Death ...

Her latest work, How I Discovered Poetry, is a memoir about her own ... "The story I tell, the family story, is of the family of an African-American flying officer." Sponsor Message Moving around ...

Like many black writers throughout American history, Antwon chose poetry as a means to express the feelings of fear and death─and hope and survival─that are unique to the black experience.

After the death of Ahmaud Arbery, Morning Edition asked for your reactions to the killing in the shape of a poem. The 25-year-old black man was shot and killed by two white men while he was out ...

The genre includes powerful work from prisoners incarcerated on death row, which is often surfaced ... County jail buses are vessels containing black, brown and white bodies.