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Dr. Maya Angelou poses at the the Special Recognition Event for Dr. Maya Angelou � The Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait at Dr. Angelou's home June 21, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Ken Charnock/Getty Images)

Maya Angelou honors mom, grandmother in new book

Leanne Italie, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Writer, actor, dancer. Activist, teacher, composer. In the melange of Maya Angelou's 85 years is also daughter, of two women who deserved one with a good memory...
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Beyoncé writes poem for Frank Ocean

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theGRIO REPORT - Beyoncé is showing her support for Frank Ocean after he came out about his sexuality last week....
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Student told to read poem in class 'blacker'

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An African-American high school student claims he was told to read a classic Langston Hughes poem 'blacker' by his English teacher...
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Jay-Z: Poem disavowing 'b-word' is fake

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A bevy of reports stated that a poem written by Jay-Z in honor of his daughter's birth was released in which the '99 Problems' rapper vowed to drop the word 'b*tch' from his songs...
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24* (three way tie) Langston HughesOne of the Harlem Renaissance’s more colorful and legendary figures, Langston Hughes managed to frame issues of African-American identity and pride in terms that seemed as much poetic as they were political. Though he contributed to both the NAACP’s The Crisis and the socialist magazine The Messenger, among other publications, falling in and out of various movements, Hughes’s politics, though decidedly pro-black, never overshadowed his strong individualism. Very in tune with the rhythms and ways of black people, Hughes consistently saw the beauty of black life and culture and not just its problems. Creatively prolific, Hughes left volumes of works, ranging from poetry collections and children’s books to plays, novels and essays. Still, it’s poems like “Harlem,” asking “what happens to a dream deferred?” and “Mother to Son,” where a woman passes on her hopefulness, not her hardships, that still manage to captivate the public imagination so many decades later.(Hulton Archive/Getty)

Santorum drops Langston Hughes poem title from campaign

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Because Santorum is not a very good politician, he allowed himself to be 'tripped up' by a student who asked him about how his campaign slogan was written by a gay, black, pro-union leftist poet...
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Man gets 33 months for threatening Obama in poem

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The 28-year-old claims that he wrote the poem because he was upset over his mother's death and he had just been indoctrinated as a white supremacist...
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KY man pleads guilty to threatening Obama in poem

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Stephan M. Pazenzia said in an affidavit that Spencer wrote and posted the poem, titled 'The Sniper'...
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