If you referred to Maimouna Jallow as a child of Africa ... she recalls reading a poem from the African American civil rights activist and poet Langston Hughes. The line, Life for me ain ...
Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...
I think everybody can really find an artist or a literary person that happens to be African American ... the content of her original poem, “Project’s Child,” her voice rising and falling ...