Yahoo News Long before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf made headlines for protesting the National Anthem, which he says cost him his career.

Yahoo Long before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf made headlines for protesting the National Anthem, which he says cost him his career.

The Economist By the mid-1920s his 20 volumes of verse had sold well over a million copies

The Economist The verdict, like much in Palestinian politics these days, is mostly a sign of Mahmoud Abbas’ growing weakness and paranoia

NPR Questions (from you!) and answers with the former Poet Laureate widely acknowledged as America's most popular poet.

The Economist His lover and fellow poet Paul Verlaine called him an “angel in exile”. It was a perception that few others shared

The New York Times In Myanmar, it was the poet versus the soldier — and the poet won.

The Economist Mahmoud Abbas promised to shake up the Israel-Palestine debate

NBC News Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' visit also comes days after the Vatican finalized a bilateral treaty with the "state of Palestine" that made explicit its recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Lili Hillis Who is the Poet? The one most willing to take pleasure or pain and turn it into a sweet lament or written refrain? The One that can bear it's Soul before the paper and pen..to release release what comes from within? Where can a poet be found? Listen Read more ... Listen something profound...What can it be? What is that sound? The poet's home, a quite place..It resides in the Heart of the whole Human race..The cadence the meter is shaped by life.Sometimes Love sometimes strife... Who is the Poet...? It is you and I Living and Breathing, Living our Life! Lili Hillis 3-26-2015