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Tag Archives: Alice Walker
Word Cloud: INDEPENDENCE
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Tomorrow is the 4th of July, the Independence Day of the United States of America. This will not be a Fourth as usual. Many of us will be spending it inside our homes, waiting for it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged #BlackLivesMatter, Alice Walker, Claude McKay, Fourth of July, Haki R. Madhubuti, Independence, Langston Hughes, Martin Espada, Tato Laviera
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ON THIS DAY: February 9, 2020
February 9th is Pizza Day Toothache Day Read in the Bathtub Day _____________________________________ MORE! Satchel Paige, Alice Walker and Eric Holder, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Aletta Jacobs, Alice Walker, Bernard Harris, Eric Holder, Keʻelikōlani, Satchel Paige, Sheila Kuehl
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Word Cloud: DREAM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Alice Walker, Black History Month, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Hayden
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ON THIS DAY: February 9, 2019
February 9th is Pizza Day Toothache Day Read in the Bathtub Day _______________________________________ MORE! Alice Walker, Satchel Paige and Eric Holder, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Aletta Jacobs, Alice Walker, Bernard Harris, Eric Holder, J.M. Coetzee, Satchel Paige, Sheila Kuehl
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TCS: Et occultatis una bellum est scriptor horror – Veteran’s Day 2018
Good Morning! ___________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: February 9, 2018
February 9th is Bagel Day Pizza Day No One Eats Alone Day * Read in the Bathtub Day ____________________________________________ MORE! Alice Walker, Satchel Paige and Bernard Harris, click
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Tagged Aletta Jacobs, Alice Walker, Bernard Harris, Eric Holder, Natsume Sōseki, Satchel Paige, Sheila Kuehl
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Word Cloud: DREAM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading
Poems for National Black Poetry Day
_____________________________________________ cutting greens by Lucille Clifton curling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of everything but kinship. collards and kale strain against each strange other away from my kissmaking hand and the iron bedpot. the pot … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, National Black Poetry Day
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ON THIS DAY: February 9, 2017
February 9th is Bagel Day Pizza Day Safer Internet Day Toothache Day Read in the Bathtub Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Natsume Sōseki, Brendan Behan and Alice Walker, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Alice Walker, Amy Lowell, Anthony Hope, Brendan Behan, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Natsume Sōseki, Satchel Paige
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WORD CLOUD: VISION
by Nona Blyth Cloud Alice Walker (1944 – ) is famous for her novels, especially her third novel, The Color Purple. Since it was first published in 1982, The Color Purple earned the National Book Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize … Continue reading