Poetry memoir invites readers into “Blindian Country”; experimental work by 20 Black artists at F-O-K Studios; Alex Yang’s” Weaving the Hmong Legacy” at the Xia Gallery.

Strong. Black. Woman. The words fit together like Blue Magic, sizzling hot combs, and Sunday afternoon. We are the fighters and the women who don’t take shit from no man.

Culture Texas’ First Black Woman Poet Laureate Spreads Poems of Praise In tough times, Amanda Johnston is creating a community of gratitude with contributions from poets all across the state.

The book tells the story of Woodson’s childhood, growing up Black in South Carolina and New York the 1960s and 70s through a series of emotional poems.

Ameer Jackson reads a poem from his book 'From a Moth to a Butterfly' during the Celebration of Black, Love, Art and Poetry event at Santa Fe college on Feb. 16, 2025.

In 2013, Strong Men & Women in Virginia History was born when Dominion Energy and the Library of Virginia began a new educational initiative that merged two phenomenal Black History Month programs ...

Divided into six chapters, “Black Panther Woman” revisits the milestones of Huggins’ life. It describes her childhood in Washington, D.C., and her upbringing in the Baptist church, where she ...

Small wonder that Black poets have heralded it. Gumbs is part of a lineage of Black writers — particularly Black feminist writers — moved by this leafy green. Green is the color of women’s work In ...

In her early years, much of her poetry was boldly militant, as she addressed the horrors that had galvanized the civil rights movement: the murders of Emmett Till, the four Black girls in the ...

When she died, she was working on her last book of poetry, The Last Book, which is set to come out in 2025. Below are some Nikki Giovanni poems that will lift your spirits while going through ...

For a time, she was called "The Princess of Black Poetry." "All I know is the she is the most cowardly, bravest, least understanding, most sensitive, slowest to anger, most quixotic, lyingest ...

Giovanni relied on support from friends to publish her debut collection, “Black Poetry Black Talk,” which came out in 1968, and in the same year she self-published “Black Judgement.” ...