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Poetry can be powerful because it succinctly puts a voice to innermost feelings and can provide a dialogue for our experience. People tend to write poetry when in the midst of powerful emotions, using it to process questions, anxieties, grief, anger, and optimism, so this National Poetry Month we’re

In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li