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NBC News Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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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."
106 months ago
Inc. Magazine Start today right. (via PureWow)
8 Things Happy People Do Every Day
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You woke up with every intention to tackle the day in the best mood ever. But after a cold morning shower and unexpected traffic on your commute, you're over it. That is, until you see your colleague Gwendolyn, who, no matter what, is always in a goo
Read more ... d mood. Here, eight things she (and other happy pe...
109 months ago
Mic The 5 officers who shot Mario Woods were given 6 weeks of paid leave before returning to work.
116 months ago
Mic It’s time to change the narrative around black men who are shot and killed by the police.
116 months ago
Daily Mail Celebrity Christina Applegate's daughter is TOO adorable!
116 months ago
HuffPost Good News "A first love is innocent. You go in blind, with no understanding and no standards."
122 months ago
HuffPost UK Lifestyle "A first love is innocent. You go in blind, with no understanding and no standards. Second love, now that's the real stuff."
122 months ago
Brian Griffin http://blacktimetravel.com/13-of-the-15-jockeys-in-the-first-kentucky-derby-were-black-but-they-dont-tell-you-that/
130 months ago
TheRoot.com #RootDisruptor: Jimmy Winkfield
Born the seventeenth child of a sharecropper in 1882, James Winkfield grew up in Kentucky’s celebrated horse country. The slender, slight stable boy who could ride bareback by the age of seven soon attracted the at
Read more ... tention of the horse racing community, and by the 1890s Jimmy was already winning races. After winning two successive Kentucky Derby races in 1901 and 1902 Winkfield was at the top of his game—but when Winkfield was crowded out of a 3rd Derby win in 1903 and racial tensions in the country were running high, he left the United States. He went on to become an international jockey in Europe until wars interrupted his success. Though his career was fraught with pitfalls, Winkfield is remembered as one of the greats in the racing world.
133 months ago
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