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Join vibrant, award-winning poets Krysten Hill and Cynthia Manick for a reading and discussion of their work and writing lives with poet-editor Joyce Peseroff on Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 p.m. ET.
Please register here for the Zoom link.
Krysten Hill (Photo credit: Jonathan Beckley) reads from her body of work whose poems exude at once vulnerability, rawness, and lucid beauty, notes Boston former Poet Laureate, Danielle Legros Georges. Hill s debut collection
How Her Spirit Got Out(Aforementioned Productions, 2016) is a lively, urgent song. Answering the writers whose voices raised her, Hill calls on Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and Zora Neale Hurston to help her navigate the complicated landscape of selfhood. Hill s speaker, wise and direct, open yet elusive, also sings for the women who brought her up: her aunt, her grandmother, and her mother. These spirits who ve guided her life and taught her through example how black wo
The Black Heritage Trail: A walking tour deep into Boston history
The trail leads visitors through Beacon Hill and offers a glimpse of the 19th-century Black experience.
By Danielle Legros GeorgesUpdated April 30, 2021, 8:17 a.m.
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Massachusetts 54th Regiment reenactors in front of the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial in 2018.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff/File
A WARM WIND WHIPS around the Massachusetts State House, blowing a newspaper page down Beacon Street, westward toward the shops on Charles. The magnificent glowing dome, gilded in 23-karat gold, seems equal to the sun. Beneath it, the solemn affairs of state are taking place.
Greeted by stones and slurs, we forged a community of Haitian immigrants
Our new home was not ruled by dictators, yet we quickly understood the proposed limits and informal surveillance of our movements, writes Danielle Legros Georges.
By Danielle Legros GeorgesUpdated February 18, 2021, 11:26 a.m.
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Danielle Legros Georges.Jennifer Waddell
I was born during a hurricane, I am told, in Gonaïves, capital of the Artibonite department, Haiti. The small house my parents were renting was built in the Gingerbread style, its flexible timber frame made to withstand tremors and storms, its fanciful wooden lattices meant to please the eye.
City of Boston will celebrate Martin Luther King Day with speeches, performances
By Diti Kohli Globe Correspondent,Updated January 17, 2021, 2:35 p.m.
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A Shawmut Avenue mural depicting Martin Luther King Jr. on a telephone call to future wife Coretta Scott King.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff
A city-run celebration of civil rights icon and Boston University alumnus Martin Luther King Jr. is slated to feature a strong list of speakers and performances from the New England Conservatory on Monday.
Held in honor of Martin Luther King Day, the livestreamed program will spotlight the activistâs wife, Coretta Scott King, a New England Conservatory graduate who died in 2006, and feature the works of famed American novelist James Baldwin.