17 is Black Poetry Day in North America ... songs that help readers grapple with the challenges of existence and independence. The book offers insight into the power of connection, tenderness ...

The speech was a powerful illustration of the disparity between the American Constitution’s ideals and the actual experience of economic exploitation suffered by Black people in the United ...

The Black National Anthem, which was written as a celebratory poem for Abraham Lincoln's ... a "black national anthem," and a "black Independence Day" in Juneteenth, is part of a wider project ...

In honor of National Black Poetry Day, here are 20 contemporary Black poets we think you should be reading all year round. Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much ...

This CROWN Day, also known as Black Hair Independence Day, there is quite a lot to celebrate. Since the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act was first signed into law ...

It’s a day to honour the courage, resilience, and determination of those who fought for our nation’s independence. Poetry, with its moving power, has always been a medium to express the ...

The day before the Fourth of July, there’s another celebration that’s less well known: Black Hair Independence Day. It’s still legal in most states for schools and employers to force Black ...

At face value, one might think Men In Black is an alien-friendly movie ... where the people would be ok with me living there! Independence Day is a classic humans vs. aliens movie, but I think ...

So what are we to make of all of this as we observe Independence Day? To mean what it should, July Fourth needs Juneteenth, our Black Emancipation Day. Because of the hypocrisy present at our ...

The poem became a war cry in India's freedom struggle ... that went on to become one of the most iconic songs of the pre-Independence era. The song is "Mera rang de basanti chola".