The poem speaks not only to the experience of African Americans but to anyone who has ever felt marginalized or dehumanized. Its hopeful refrain, “I rise,” transcends racial and cultural ...
Take his play The Dutchman, for example, and his poem “Babylon Revisited.” Both of these works take on the elite, white liberal fascination with African-American artists in the 1960s (skewered ...
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and Superintendent of Schools Aníbal Soler, Jr. launched the 2025 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Poem/Essay Contest. This year’s theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses ...