The 100 best African American poems CD

If you are a copyright holder that would like something removed from my channel please message me on YouTube & I will respond so you do not need to file a DMCA Copyright Takedown Request with YouTube. Thank You.

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

CD contents: Aunt / Mari Evans, read by Carolyn H Dixon — For my people / Margaret Walker, read by Val Gray Ward — When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Ruby Dee — We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by the poet — We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by ensemble — Old Lem / Sterling A Brown, read by Joanne V Gabbin — I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton, read by Sue Ott Rowlands — I am a black woman / Mari Evans, read by Val Gray Ward — Who can be born black? / Mari Evans, read by Novella Nelson — Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni, read by Linda Dixon — Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni, read by the poet — Dry spell / Kevin Young, read by Novella Nelson — Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden, read by Carolyn Rude Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden, read by the poet — Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes, read by Dr Charles Steger — Creation / James Weldon Johnson, read by Terry L Papillon — Mother / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Rudy Dee — Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon / Gwendoly Brooks, read by Rudy Dee and Nikki Giovanni — Sunset of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Rudy Dee — Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen, read by Kevin G McDonald — Incident / Countee Cullen, read by Gena E Chandler — We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar, read by Novella Nelson — Heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson, red by Ethel Morgan Smith — Boston year / Elizabeth Alexander, read by the poet — Personal letter no 3 / Sonia Sanchez, read by the poet — Poem at thirty / Sonia Sanchez, read by the poet –Poem for Sterling Brown / Sonia Sanchez, red by the poet — Lot’s daughter dreams of her mother / Opal Moore, read by Ethel Morgan Smith — Mama’s promise / Marilyn Nelson, read by the poet — Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton, read by Ennis McCrery — Train rides / Nikki Giovanni, read by Virginia C Fowler — Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natash Trethewey, read by Joanne V Gabbin — Nikki, if you were a song / Kwame Alexander, read by Novella Nelson — River that flows forever and Rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur, read by Novella Nelson — Mercy killing / Remica L Bingham, read by Novella Nelson — Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni, read by the poet

See more about the poems and book here: https://archive.org/details/1oobestafricanam00/page/n263

Share This Post
Have your say!
00

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>