Inaugural Poet Laureate - Chicago
Chicago, IL
Joined June 2013
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Yall remember these at your grandmama church back in the day with no central air conditioner
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59 years ago today, Miles Davis's "Sorcerer" was released.
Miles with the second great quintet. Wayne Shorter’s writing is central, and Hancock, Carter and Williams keep the music open and elastic.
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Janet Jackson’s introductory speech for Missy Elliott at the Gala Of The Stars ✨♥️
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Writer James Baldwin visits Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party co-founder and chairman, in the San Francisco County Jail. ❤️💚🖤
Baldwin and Seale (1969)
by Stephen Shames
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
#jamesbaldwin #bobbyseale
Chicago's inaugural Poet Laureate and cultural leader Avery R. Young is one of five commissioned artists debuting new work at THE PURSUIT: A People's Salon
Register for free and join us on October 28 at the historic Ramova Theatre: ilhumanities.org/pursuit
#ILHumanities #Salon
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Alice Coltrane ( 1937–2007), accomplished jazz pianist, harpist & composer, whose talents were overshadowed by her much more famous husband, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane #WomensArt
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Martin Luther King
& in other news / almost finished with a draft of a play / so excited I can't sleep / but too tired to continue writing blk! – at East Ithaca, NY
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Joni Mitchell is giving her classic song "Both Sides, Now" a new meaning after becoming a United States citizen.
Read more: abcnews.link/AucCGY1
