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The best poems: Poetry everyone should read

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the practice of storytelling itself. Poetry exists to communicate thoughts, feelings, hopes, and the depths of human experience otherwise rendered ineffable when pressed to conform to the shape of any other medium. National Poetry Month, established by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, was created for the express purpose of reminding us of that fact. Here at Polygon, we love the arts not just the latest that television, games, and film have to offer, but any artform which brings us closer to understanding the lives and experiences of others and ourselves. So, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month, we’ve come together to curate a list of a few of our favorite poems. Join us as we appreciate the poems that have shaped us. We encourage you to share some of

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New book highlights Colored Conventions and long history of Black activism

E-Mail IMAGE: Image used on the cover of the newly edited book, The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. The sketch, 1869 National Colored Convention in Washington, DC, is. view more Credit: Courtesy of the personal Jim Casey Collection. It has been more than 50 years since a full-length book was written about the Colored Conventions Movement the 19th century s longest campaign for Black civil rights. In 1969, Howard Holman Bell, a scholar of African American history, published The Negro Convention Movement: 1830-1861, his dissertation. Bell s book has stood as the only full-length volume on Black conventions that were organized across North America and attended by tens of thousands of Black delegates and likely hundreds of thousands of participants from all walks of life.

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Barack Obama joins our book club, plus 10 most-watched festival events

I hope you tuned in this week when President Barack Obama joined us for a conversation with filmmaker Ava DuVernay about his bestselling memoir “A Promised Land.” But if you weren’t able to attend the streaming event Wednesday, never fear: Watch this special book club event here. Obama talked about leadership, failure, activism and police reform, which he says begins with reimagining the role of law enforcement. “What does it mean for a community to be safe?” Obama asked during the book club conversation. “For most of our history, policing in the African American community has meant just keeping a lid on things and keeping control and maintaining barriers and boundaries, rather than actually serving those communities.”

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Al Young, California poet laureate, novelist, singer and lecturer, dies at 81

Al Young, California poet laureate, novelist, singer and lecturer, dies at 81
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ONTD original - Where Are They Now? : The Dance Moms Girls

ONTD original - Where Are They Now? : The Dance Moms Girls The first season of Lifetime s iconic Dance Moms first aired almost 10 years ago (July 2011). Rewatching Dance Moms has been the latest distraction I ve undertaken (shoutout to my aunt for letting me borrow her DVDs), and as a result, I ve been looking at all the Dance Moms girls on Instagram and seeing what they re up to now. We ve got a little bit of everything - someone in a strange relationship with a pop singer, a Trump supporter, a writer, a racism controversy, and a podcast. MADDIE ZIEGLER Age now: 18 Instagram Followers: 13.8 million (#2)

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