[Black Poetry\Black History\1619 Project]
Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club presents Black Poets on Black History: “The 1619 Project” on Tuesday, February 18. The event will be held at 6:30 pm in the Cafeteria of Building B on the East St. Louis Higher Education Campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 601 J.R. Thompson Drive, EStL, IL 62201.
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IDA B. WELLS SPEECH: “LYNCHING OUR NATIONAL CRIME”
[Black History Month\Ida B. Wells]
Ida B. Wells: “Why is mob murder permitted by a Christian nation? What is the cause of this awful slaughter? This question is answered almost daily—always the same shameless falsehood that ‘Negroes are lynched to protect womanhood.”
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BOB MARLEY’S REDEMPTION SONG: “SONGS OF FREEDOM”
[Celebrating Black History Month\Bob Marley\Poetry]
Bob Marley: “Won’t You help to sing, These songs of freedom? ‘Cause all I ever had, Redemption songs.”
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