To be a black woman in America is to be the unsung casualty. To be a black woman alive in America and writing poetry is miraculous. Here I am, she says—despite a fight against my selfhood and survival ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Kristina Kay Robinson is the co-editor of Mixed Company, a short anthology of Black women’s fiction. She is the editor-at-large for Burnaway and lives in New Orleans. “I wrote this poem shortly after ...

For Black History Month, Blue Peter commissioned some special poems by black spoken word artists ... It can be worn while men and women dance the Dirrer.

Published in 1959 in her collection The Bean Eaters, this short ... particularly within the Black community. Why “Phenomenal ...