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by Abdul Ali onOctober 26, 2011
A new Penguin anthology edited by Rita Dove highlights a number of African-American poets.
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Part Martin, part Malcolm, Johnson tried to curb the wave of race riots in 1919.
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July 22, 2010
Professor Timothy Askew finds "Lift Every Voice and Sing" to be racially separatist and divisive.
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