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Title Author Year
Harlem Night Club Langston Hughes 1926
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training Kortney Morrow 2020
Bananas Lorna Dee Cervantes 2005
Arts & Craft Farid Matuk 2025
WHO REAL؟ Marwa Helal 2020
Singing Funeral féi iká shumarí 2022
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Matrilineage [umbilicus] Sarah Ghazal Ali 2023
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
Heritage Emissary Threa Almontaser 2020
Make Me Human or Give Me Death May Yang 2017
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
Quotidian Natasha Trethewey 2021
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
[ t h e ] n o r t h [ e r n ] [ o f ] i r e l a n d Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
Children of the Sun Fenton Johnson 1922
Overtakelessness Daniel Moysaenko 2025
sky hammer Julian Talamantez Brolaski 2022
When the World Tells Me There Is Nothing Good Coming out of My Mouth & I Am at My Breaking Point Anastacia-Reneé 2026

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