Jeane Musesambili stood before the crowd and told them how she's "never known courage by its name." "But lately," she read from a poem she'd written, "I have learned to appreciate it in all its forms.

We deserve to be on the big stages the way stand-up comedians are,” said Des Moines poet Kelsey Bigelow. “We’re using our stories and our voices. It’s just in a […] ...

A recently discovered poem, written in 1918 and published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Twenty students from Spokane-area schools will be showcasing their art in the annual Black Voices Symposium event on Monday, many of them gracing the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center stage with ...

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

117. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' ...

In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

Faith and courage should go hand in hand. It is not lost on me that Inauguration Day was also MLK Jr. Day. Dr. King also lived in troubled and turbulent times. As he spoke out for civil and human ...

This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a friend told the Mandelstams about a bird he’d seen that, on its owner’s ...

Ruthnie Angrand, who identifies as Haitian-American, read a poem about Black women and their ... Phyu was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2015 by the U.S. State Department.