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Demonstrators hold up an African American flag during a protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown on August 12, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The Freedom Struggle
In the struggle between the promise of the American Dream and the failures of the dominant culture to comprehend that Black lives not only matter but, like all lives, are precious, the poet sings a healing song. In this section, we encounter African American poets who engage this struggle to resist injustice and envision new aesthetic, spiritual, and humanistic possibilities. — From the essay by Joanne M. Braxton
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The Freedom Struggle

Amanda Gorman: “Old Jim Crow Got to Go” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

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Lift Every Voice: Chicago

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Lift Every Voice: Atlanta

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Kevin Young Reads “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

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Kevin Young Discusses “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

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Phylicia Rashad Reads “The Slave Mother”

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Lift Every Voice: New York City

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Eve L. Ewing: “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store”

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Jericho Brown Reads “The Tradition”

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Jaki Shelton Green: “Oh My Brother”

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In Conversation with Sonia Sanchez

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Oratorio: I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It

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Audre Lorde: The Uses of Anger

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Mahogany L. Browne at Furious Flower

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Claudia Rankine Reads from “Citizen”

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