[Poet Jessica Care Moore]
Jessica Care Moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock! and founder of the literacy-driven Jess CARE Moore Foundation.
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HAMMONDS HOUSE MUSEUM PRESENTS MAY 29 VIRTUAL EVENING WITH POET JESSICA CARE MOORE
MARGARET WALKER’S CLASSIC POEM: “FOR MY PEOPLE”
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“For the cramped bewildered years…when we discovered we were Black and poor and small and different…”
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AMIRI BARAKA’S POEM WAILERS: “WAILERS ARE WE”
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Amiri Baraka: “Hey, Bob, Wail on rock on Jah come into us as real vision and action. Hey, Larry, Wail on, with Lester and the Porkpie, wailing us energy for truth. We Wailers is all, and on past that to say, wailing for all we worth.”
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MAYA ANGELOU: “STILL I RISE”
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Maya Angelou: “Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise. Up from a past that’s rooted in pain, I rise.”
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