![]() ![]() Angelou was found by her caretaker this morning, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines confirmed.Īngelou was set to be honored with the “Beacon of Life Award” at the 2014 Major League Baseball Beacon Award Luncheon on May 30 in Houston, but recently cancelled due to health problems. Maya Angelou, acclaimed author, poet, professor and civil rights activist, has died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. C-SPAN Cities Tour: Dayton: Paul Laurence Dunbar.(guide to Dunbar’s works in Library of Congress). ![]() Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend.įor more Good Black News, check out or search and follow anywhere on social. If you like these Daily Drops, please consider following us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. This has been a daily drop of Good Black News, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022,” published by Workman Publishing.īeats provided by freebeats.io and produced by White Hot. Links to these sources and more are provided in today’s show notes and in the episode’s full transcript posted on. ![]() A great deal of Dunbar’s poetry also can be found in the public domain. To learn more about Dayton, Ohio native Dunbar, read the 2017 paperback of The Life and Works Of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Containing His Complete Poetical Works, His Best Short Stories, Numerous Anecdotes And A Complete Biography Of The Famous Poet, you can pre-order the upcoming 2022 release Paul Laurence Dunbar: Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett, check out the 2018 documentary Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond The Maskproduced by the Central Region Humanities Center at Ohio University, and the 2021 episode about Dunbar of the virtual series We, Too, Sing Americaproduced by Aural Compass Projects, currently available on YouTube. In 1903 he wrote the lyrics for In Dahomey, the first all-African American musical produced on Broadway, but his best-known legacy - other than the poem “ We Wear The Mask” - most likely springs from 20 th century poet Maya Angelou, who “sampled” Dunbar’s poem Sympathyfor her autobiography’s title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. One of the first African American writers to garner international fame, Dunbar celebrated Black speech and vernacular in many of his works. was 19 th century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar – he sold his poems to people riding in the elevator he operated! rappers jump-started their careers by selling CDs out of the trunks of their cars, the real O.G. Hey, this Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Monday, March 21st, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing. Or just check it out every day here on the main website (transcript below): You can follow or subscribe to the Good Black News Daily Drop Podcast through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, rss.comor create your own RSS Feed. By Lori Lakin Hutcherson ( # WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first African American writers to celebrate Black speech and vernacular in his works.ĭunbar is featured in today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast, based on the Monday, March 21 entry from our “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022: ![]()
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