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Black Experience in History and Memory - A "Lift Every Voice" Event, Princeton Public Library

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Thursday January 28, 2021
7:00 PM

A literary landmark, "African American Poetry: 250 Years Of Struggle & Song," edited by Kevin Young, is the most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present. There are many themes that run throughout the selection of poems in this volume, including that of the Black experience in America. The discussion at this event will examine the works of poets such as Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks and others in relation to the history and memory of Black Americans.

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