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99 relations: Academy of American Poets, African Americans, African-American literature, Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Civil War, Amiri Baraka, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Annie Allen, Ballad, Bancroft Library, Blues, Brown v. Board of Education, Chicago, Chicago literature, Chicago State University, Chicago Tribune, City College of New York, City Colleges of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Columbia University, Douglas, Chicago, Elmhurst College, Englewood Technical Prep Academy, Fisk University, Free verse, Great Depression, Great Migration (African American), Gregory Pardlo, Guggenheim Fellowship, Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy, Haki R. Madhubuti, Harper (publisher), Hyde Park Academy High School, Illinois, Inner city, James Weldon Johnson, Jefferson Lecture, Kennedy–King College, Kenny Williams (educator), Langston Hughes, Lexington, Kentucky, Library of Congress, List of African-American firsts, List of poets, List of poets from the United States, List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts, Macomb, Illinois, Mademoiselle (magazine), Margaret Busby, ..., Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Mel Watkins (author), Nashville, Tennessee, Natasha Trethewey, National Book Award, National Book Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Women's Hall of Fame, Nora Brooks Blakely, Northeastern Illinois University, NPR, Oak Park Elementary School District, Paul Engle, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poet, Poet laureate, Poetry (magazine), Poetry Foundation, Poetry Society of America, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Racial integration, Richard Wright (author), Rita Dove, Robert Frost, Robert Frost Medal, Shelley Memorial Award, Slavery in the United States, Sonnet, South Side Community Art Center, Springfield, Illinois, The Chicago Defender, The Guardian, The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, The New York Times, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), Topeka, Kansas, Tracy K. Smith, Union (American Civil War), United States Marine Corps, United States Poet Laureate, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, University Press of Kentucky, Wendell Phillips Academy High School, Western Illinois University, Yusef Komunyakaa, 100 Greatest African Americans. Expand index (49 more) »
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American literature
African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent.
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Almighty Black P. Stone Nation
The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, or BPSN, is an American street gang founded in Chicago, estimated to have more than 100,000 members.
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American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is an American literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture.
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Annie Allen
Annie Allen is a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks that was published in 1949, and for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1950.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chicago literature
Chicago literature is writing, primarily by writers born or living in Chicago, that reflects the culture of the city.
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Chicago State University
Chicago State University (CSU) is a state university of the U.S. state of Illinois, located in Chicago.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.
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City Colleges of Chicago
The City Colleges of Chicago is a system of seven community colleges and six satellite sites that provide learning opportunities for residents of the Chicago area.
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Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago is an independent, non-profit liberal arts college specializing in arts and media disciplines, with more than 8,000 students pursuing degrees in more than 100 undergraduate and 15 graduate degree programs.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Douglas, Chicago
Douglas, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of 77 Chicago community areas.
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Elmhurst College
Elmhurst College is a comprehensive four-year private liberal arts college in Elmhurst, Illinois.
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Englewood Technical Prep Academy
Englewood Technical Prep Academy High School or sometimes referred to as simply Englewood High School, was a public 4-year high school located in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, United States.
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Fisk University
Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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Gregory Pardlo
Gregory Pardlo (born November 24, 1968) is an American poet, writer, and professor.
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Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".
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Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy (known as Brooks) is a public selective enrollment 4-year magnet high school located in the Roseland community area on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee on February 23, 1942, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States) is an African-American author, educator, and poet, as well as a publisher and operator of black-themed bookstore.
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Harper (publisher)
Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.
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Hyde Park Academy High School
Hyde Park Academy High School (formerly known as Hyde Park High School and Hyde Park Career Academy) is a public 4–year high school located in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Inner city
The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.
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Jefferson Lecture
The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities is an honorary lecture series established in 1972 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Kennedy–King College
Kennedy–King College (KKC) part of City Colleges of Chicago, is a public two-year community college in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Kenny Williams (educator)
Kenny J. Williams (1927–2003) was an African American scholar and author, and an English professor at Duke University.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of African-American firsts
African Americans (also known as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group in the United States.
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List of poets
This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.
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List of poets from the United States
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts
The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.
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Macomb, Illinois
Macomb is a city in and the county seat of McDonough County, Illinois, United States.
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Mademoiselle (magazine)
Mademoiselle was a women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.
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Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby OBE, Hon.
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Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay
Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay or MCAS Kaneohe Bay is a United States Marine Corps airfield located within the Marine Corps Base Hawaii complex, formerly known as Marine Corps Air Facility (MCAF) Kaneohe Bay or Naval Air Station (NAS) Kaneohe Bay.
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Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
Marine Corps Recruit Depot (commonly referred to as MCRD) San Diego is a United States Marine Corps military installation in San Diego, California.
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Mel Watkins (author)
Mel Watkins (born March 8, 1940) is an American critic and author.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2014.
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National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.
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National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
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National Women's Hall of Fame
The National Women's Hall of Fame is an American institution created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the 1848 women's rights convention.
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Nora Brooks Blakely
Nora Brooks Blakely (born September 8, 1951) is a literary editor and agent.
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Northeastern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in Chicago, Illinois.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Oak Park Elementary School District
The Oak Park Elementary School District operates eight elementary schools (K–5, unless otherwise noted) and two middle schools (6–8) in Oak Park, Illinois, USA.
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Paul Engle
Paul Engle (October 12, 1908 – March 22, 1991), noted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Poet
A poet is a person who creates poetry.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Poetry (magazine)
Poetry (founded as, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse), published in Chicago since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world.
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Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture.
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Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Racial integration
Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation).
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.
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Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.
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Robert Frost Medal
The Robert Frost Medal is an award of the Poetry Society of America for "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Medalists receive a prize purse of $5,000.
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Shelley Memorial Award
The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Slavery in the United States
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Sonnet
A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.
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South Side Community Art Center
The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois.
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Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.
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The Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Lincoln Academy of Illinois
The Lincoln Academy of Illinois is a not-for-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to recognizing contributions made by living Illinoisans.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (RBML) is located on the 3rd floor of the University Library.
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Topeka, Kansas
Topeka (Kansa: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County.
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Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator.
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Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.
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United States Poet Laureate
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University Press of Kentucky
The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.
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Wendell Phillips Academy High School
Wendell Phillips Academy High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Western Illinois University
Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university located in Macomb, Illinois, United States.
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Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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100 Greatest African Americans
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks
