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SPOKEN WITHOUT WORDS: ASL Poetry Slam in the Daily Good
June 8, 2022
–by Great Big Story, Jun 09, 2022 in the Daily Good
Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on US quarter as treasury begins distribution
March 31, 2022
National Women’s History Museum – the American Women’s Quarters
WOMEN’S RAGE
March 4, 2022
by Miyako Pleines in Ploughshares at Emerson College
Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel stirs up all the women in literature who have been sealing their anger away, letting it churn undisturb…
In Disguise
February 28, 2022
For half an hour, The Kuklapolitans brought us together; my father and neighbor kids who would pile in around the 12” Zenith.
Remembering Poet Laureate Ella V. Costner
February 12, 2022
by Frances Figart in The Great Smokey Mountains Association
Not long ago, I got a voice message from Carol Treiber, a member of Great Smoky Mountains Association, saying that she had read a story…
20 books that are essential reading for Black History Month
February 5, 2022
Offered by Flatiron Writers Room
Hoodwinked
January 24, 2022
My Grandmother raised black Cocker Spaniels
she called “Midnights.”
Stilts
December 20, 2021
For my 6th birthday, my Father made them of scrap wood—two by fours, both four feet long, with chocks of wood to stand on.
TELL THEM WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED HERE…
December 7, 2021
in DailyGood from the Beshara Magazine
Over the past five years or so, there has been an emerging awareness of a body of work that arose during the Second World War. Fragments of it have been kno…












