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With a Stirring Recital, the Nation’s First Youth Poet Laureate Inspires Hope
At 18, Amanda Gorman made history when she was named the nation’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, a post that she felt had been a lifetime in the making. For Gorman, who published her first collection of poetry at 16, this literary honor afforded her a big open door — and a world stage.
April 29, 2020
Opinion
A Tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison
For those of us who have savored Toni Morrison’s writing, teaching and speaking about language, literature, life and living for the past five decades, her death is a profound loss. From her days as an editor at Random House to the 11 novels she wrote, to her most recent collection of nonfiction essays The Source of Self-Regard, Morrison deftly and unapologetically interrogated American identity through the complex lens of the African-American experience.
August 13, 2019
African-American
Returning to her Rural Roots: bell hooks
On a Friday morning late last spring, bell hooks was sitting comfortably on a couch perfectly situated in a spacious single-family home that Berea College purchased and had since converted into an Institute bearing her name.
October 31, 2018
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