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Title Author Year
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes 1994
Caliban Theory Malcolm Friend 2025
HOLYHEADHARRIET Ashley M. Jones 2025
Kin: First Responders Tameka Cage Conley 2024
Sojourned. Nabila Lovelace 2024
Necessary Conditions Justice Ameer 2024
[American Journal] Alison C. Rollins 2024
Black Bell [Wore the whistles …] Alison C. Rollins 2024
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Abolition of Slavery in District of Columbia James Madison Bell 1901
On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time Herman Beavers 2024
My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral Mahogany L. Browne 2024
Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking; Or, Essay of the Jordan Border Passage, in Notes) Rickey Laurentiis 2023
The White Iris Beautifies Me Cyrus Cassells 2018
Caesars and Dreamers Cyrus Cassells 2018
Notes in the Margin Glenis Redmond 2023
Slavery’s Slippery Touch P. Gabrielle Foreman 2023

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