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African American poets

Battlefield and Wind Chime

by Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ben Lerner,

Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poems are echo chambers of vernaculars and unofficial languages. He both registers the damage caused by systemic racism and evinces—and by his work extends—the rich modes of resistance…

Race prejudice and the Negro artist

by James Weldon Johnson,

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