Thoughts for Today

Poised To Ban Hair Discrimination

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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57804/dont-let-me-be-lonely-cornel-west-makes-the-point

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Born in Jamaica in 1963, Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), which received the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. She served as a Chancellorof the Academy of American Poets from 2013 to 2018.

https://poets.org/poem/dont-let-me-be-lonely-there-was-time

https://poets.org/poem/we-heard-health-care-audio-only

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Artist| Scientist| Creative Entrepreneur| Activist: working at intersections of arts, health, healing, and activism, my practice focuses on the performance and performative articulations of vulnerable bodies, exploring and examining expressions of identity and belonging. I hold particular interest in the lives and aspirations of the African Diaspora/Black Atlantic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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