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Q&A: Amanda Gorman talks UN poem, fame, future presidency
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoWhen Amanda Gorman was invited to read a newly developed poem at the U.N. General Assembly, the...
Jamila Woods wrote an album about love — and dared to tell the truth
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News UK· 9 months agoWith Water Made Us, her most personal work yet, the Chicago singer and poet tackles her past...
LeVar Burton on his Emmy award, Reading Rainbow , and the authors that changed his life
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoThe actor, author, and educator, who is being honored with a special Lifetime Achievement Emmy,...
The Real World 's Kevin Powell Is Married: 'A Love That Is So Powerful It Is Simply Unexplainable'
People via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoThe human rights activist and author tells PEOPLE of his second marriage: "I am humbled and thrilled...
7 Famous Black Figures That Are Long Overdue For Their Own Biopic
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoOprah Winfrey speaks with Amanda Gorman in “The Oprah Conversation,” now streaming on Apple TV+. We...
Edwidge Danticat on Living and Writing in DeSantis' Florida
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn Haiti, Edwidge Danticat saw America as a beacon of freedom. But recent legislation in her current...
OPINION - Arts Council England have created a dangerous confusion: art cannot be separated from...
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 4 months agoIt all started when the magazine Arts Professional reported on a hitherto largely unnoticed update...
Amanda Gorman Has Big Dreams
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 24-year-old, whose recitation of “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration made her America’s most famous poet, has never met a mountain she...
12 contemporary books by Black authors that are banned for writing about race, sexuality, and police...
INSIDER via Yahoo News UK· 1 year ago"All Boys Aren't Blue" and "The Color Purple"MacMillan / Penguin Random House In 2021, debates...
Pink to distribute 2000 'banned' books at Florida concerts
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoSinger Pink has announced plans to hand out 2,000 books that have been “banned” by some schools in...