Celebrating the birthday and literary legacy of Tupac Shakur, the HBW has selected a few of his poems to present to our viewing audience. His poems reveal the influences—ranging from his mother’s involvement with the Black Panther Party and his boyhood/teenage friendship with actress Jada Pinkett-Smith—that weighed heavily on his life and creative vices. Tupac’s poetry stands as a testament revealing the literary connections to […]
30 BOOKS FOR THE “CRUELEST MONTH” Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Langston Hughes, Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman Mari Evans, I Am A Black Woman Brenda Marie Osbey, Ceremony for Minneconjoux Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Gospel of Barbecue Gwendolyn Brooks, Blacks E. Ethelbert Miller, Season of Hunger/Cry of Rain Alice Walker, Revolutionary Petunias James […]
“THANK-YOU” NOTE TO AMERICAN PRESIDENTS How beautiful is the blood of the dead splashed like azaleas on the body of Earth You have made my day aesthetic Jerry W. Ward, Jr. March 29, 2011