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7 Jun 2021, 1:01 am
Gwendolyn Brooks, born on this day in 1917, was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 7:33 am
The Illinois Authors Wiki lists authors from Abraham Lincoln to Gwendolyn Brooks to Studs Terkel. [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 1:50 am
From the poem, “Paul Robeson” by Gwendolyn Brooks (who would have been 91 today). [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 9:30 pm
While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 7:38 am
But the concept seems to sneak into required course content, under the heading of essential knowledge, referencing the writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Mari Evans, who 'explore the lived experience of Black women and men and show how their race, gender and social class can affect how they are perceived, their roles and their economic opportunities.'" [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 3:02 am
Once again we honor those whose words have touched us.My nominee this year is Gwendolyn Brooks (right), born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, but known throughout much of her 83 years of life as a Chicagoan. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 10:19 am
We invite close readings of poems from the colonial to the contemporary period; authors may include but are not limited to Sherman Alexie, Maya Angelou, John Ashbury, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Cullen Bryant, Averill Curdy, Phoebe Cary, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Robert Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Marge Piercy, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Simic, Claudia Rankine, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright. [read post]
30 May 2018, 1:54 pm
” Today was the premiere of an episode which focuses on Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem To Prisoners and features exonerees Martin Tankleff, Jarrett Adams, Jeffrey Deskovic and Alan Newton. [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 9:40 am
Grant Ronald Reagan Barack Obama Frank Lloyd Wright Muddy Waters Carl Sandburg Ernest Hemingway Clarence Darrow Michael Jordan Honorable mentions: John Paul Stevens, Hyman Rickover, Elliot Ness, Gwendolyn Brooks, George Halas, Jesse Jackson, Robert Maynard Hutchins, George Pullman, Emma Goldman, Chuck Berry, Phil & Leonard Chess, Golda Meir, Julius Rosenwald, Dinah Washington, Benny Goodman, John L. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 10:54 am
Quraysh earned an MFA at the Creative Writing Program at New York University where he was a Departmental Fellow and he served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing from 2002-2011. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 4:28 pm
Among a long list of distinguished bylines: Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 6:15 am
Walker, Zora Neal Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Coleman and, of course, Rosa Parks, all of whom played such an immensely important role in American history and culture. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 6:15 am
Walker, Zora Neal Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Coleman and, of course, Rosa Parks, all of whom played such an immensely important role in American history and culture. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 6:56 pm
Behind a subscription paywall.]Fast Company: UN Secretary-General: Every country and every company needs to make a plan for net-zero emissionsBlack Lives Matter: Code Switch (Apple Podcasts’ first-ever Show of the Year for 2020) From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) [based on the Blinkist 13 min. summary of the best-selling book] Civil rights icon, Ruby Bridges, pens new children’s book (Rosalind Bentley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution) We Real… [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 11:00 am
Brooklyn native Gwendolyn "Aduke" Anderson, a creator of the Harlem Children's Theatre Project and a veteran of education posts throughout the tri-state area, was recognized for her longtime advocacy in arts and education. [read post]
6 Nov 2023, 2:42 pm
Brooks & David Gamage, Taxation and the Constitution, Reconsidered, 76 Tax L. [read post]
13 Jul 2019, 10:33 am
Harrith Hasson performed outpatient laparoscopic surgery on Gwendolyn Tate at Surgery Center. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 10:04 am
E-mail portjrp@surfsouth.com Southern Judicial Circuit Brooks, Colquitt, Echols, Lowndes and Thomas counties.Contacts: Tim C. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 1:00 am
Here is the schedule for the 2019 Health Law Professors Conference. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:51 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Tauluseinä Tavelväggen, Wall of Printings (1977); Nörrköping Art Museum Turku Findland))Every year for almost 25 years, the Corporate Practice Commentator (with great thanks to Robert Thompson (Georgetown)) announces the results of its annual poll to select the ten best corporate and securities articles. [read post]
