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Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton in Conversation with Eisa Davis, 2002 This excerpt is from the transcript of a conversation jointly sponsored by Cave Canem and the New School, which was the first …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Harryette Mullen
In this poem by Harryette Mullen, the idea of Legacy is presented through the historic violence of dispassionate bureaucratic language, the policies of oppression, and slippages of their true significance. …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Yona Harvey
In this poem by Yona Harvey, the idea of Legacy is underscored not only through oppression but the enduring spirit of Black womanhood in power connecting to her primordial spirit. …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Erica Hunt inheritance
Excerpts from Erica Hunt’s introduction to Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing. Angle, Defy Gravity, Land Unpredictably By Erica Hunt The future is a slippery project. What …
Niki Herd / George Floyd And The White Gaze
Now That Another Black Body Has Been Laid to Rest: George Floyd And The White Gaze by Niki Herd I don’t know who George Floyd is yet, but I am …