Maria Shriver on meeting heartbreak with poetry
In her new book, "I Am Maria," the child of the Kennedy family, broadcast journalist, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and – after the end of her marriage – a woman in search of herself offers an ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Independent Newspaper Nigeria on MSN2d
Poetry, Always A Work In Progress, Says Wole Soyinka At 2025 ProvidusBank Poetry Café
It was a wonder to see the sage, Nigerian Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka man the stage at the 6th ProvidusBank World Poetry Day Café, held on March 21 at Terra Kulture Arena in Lagos. The ...
The Guardian Nigeria2d
At The Evening with Wole Soyinka, poets converge for human universality
From spoken word to lyrical poetry, Providus Bank, in commemoration of the 2025 World Poetry Day (WPD) made March 21 ‘Evening ...
Lucy Dacus Confirms This Taylor Swift Lyric Is About Her
When Taylor Swift dropped 'The Tortured Poets Department,' fans deduced one telling lyric was about Lucy Dacus. Now, Dacus is ...
The Forward on MSN3d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)4d
Descendants of people enslaved by St. Louis University say they cannot participate in formal apology
St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black ...
WLRN4d
Stolen bikes and dreams: How a Miami poet makes art out of tragedy
A Miami poet discusses her Zip Ode poem about buying her own stolen bike, and how she views this as a quintessential Miami ...
The St Kitts Nevis Observer4d
Honoring the Past, Confronting the Legacy: UN Calls for Action on Slavery’s Enduring Impact.
The UN marked the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, with Secretary-General ...
Smithsonian Magazine4d
Advanced Imaging Reveals Crossed-Out Words in the Poems of Alfred Tennyson
The 19th-century English poet was a "prolific reviser" who tested out many variations of his work before publication. A new ...
P.M. News4d
Slave Trade: Remembrance and reparatory ethos 2025
Now, that slaveowner happened to be an out and out sadist. He not only ran a domestic amphitheatre of death, he was more than ...