Gwendolyn brown posts
NBC News Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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'A Surprised Queenhood' honors life and legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
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June marks the 100th anniversary of Brooks' birth.
105 months ago
NPR "Some of her grocery lists were poetry in themselves," her daughter says. "She would describe things like 'bright, pearlescent, ruby tomatoes' and so forth, to be very clear about what we were supposed to find."
Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100
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A new biography celebrates the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who wrote about ordinary black life using extraordinary language.
106 months ago
MTV "Brown is the color I am now, here, today — a social activist working to inspire and empower as many brown hands and hearts as I can reach."
Embracing My Brown, Mexican Roots
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I am brown, outspoken, and passionate about social activism
111 months ago
MTV "The socially inept brown nerds on TV embarrassed me and the bumbling foreign taxi drivers in movies did not represent me."
116 months ago
Nieca Head To A Dark Girl
I love you for your brownness
And the rounded darkness of your breast.
I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice
And shadows where your wayward eye-lids rest.
Something of old forgotten queens
Lurks in the lithe abandon o Read more ... f your walk
And something of the shackled slave
Sobs in the rhythm of your talk.
Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow's mate,
Keep all you have of queenliness,
Forgetting that you once were slave,
And let your full lips laugh at Fate!
Written by Gwendolyn Bennett
117 months ago
MTV "The socially inept brown nerds on TV embarrassed me and the bumbling foreign taxi drivers in movies did not represent me."
117 months ago
Eileen Elizabeth Bowen-Keogh Why would you say that shades of brown are ugly? First of all, brown is flawlessly professional, and perfect with any fall shade, and even bright colors like turquoise have an extra pop, paired with brown. But more importantly, when you post a thing Read more ... like that, it's very racially ignorant. How are women of color supposed to perceive your saying that brown is ugly? Brown is beautiful. Please think before you post something like that again.
127 months ago
Jezebel "I think the best thing God created was a woman," Chris Brown told Us Weekly. Mhmm.
Fact-Checking Chris Brown's '25 Things You Don't Know About Me'
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Things I knew about Chris Brown before today: almost nothing good. Things I now know about Chris Brown: He owns 14 Burger Kings.http://jezebel.com/5885776/everyt... A Chronological Look at What Exactly Is Wrong With Chris Brown A Chronological Look a Read more ... t What Exactly Is Wrong With Chris Brown A Chronol…
127 months ago
Refinery29 "Our loss is unimaginable"
UPDATE: The Houston Family Releases A Statement About Bobbi Kristina Brown's Death
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Singer Bobby Brown and his lawyer, Christopher Brown of Boston's Brown & Rosen LLC, have released statements to Refinery29
128 months ago
CBS News Bobbi Kristina Brown's father Bobby Brown says his daughter is doing "good."
NEW: Bobby Brown gives update on Bobbi Kristina Brown
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There have been conflicting reports about Brown's condition ever since she was found unresponsive in a bathtub.
134 months ago