Författare: Johnson James Weldon Johnson

Sterling A. Brown was renowned for his trenchant poetry and scholarship on African American folklife. A contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude Mc Kay, and Jean Toomer, Brown became the first poet la …

A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was …

A moving history of the African-American struggle for equality, "Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" was written for schoolchildren to sing at an Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration in 1900 and was …

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln’s imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consc …

God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American spiritual oratory. African-American scholars have identified the …