Jabari Asim
Jabari Asim (born August 11, 1962) is an American author, poet, playwright, and professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the former editor-in-chief of ''The Crisis'' magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910. In February 2019 he was named Emerson College's inaugural Elma Lewis '43 Distinguished Fellow in the Social Justice Center. In September 2022 he was named Emerson College Distinguished Professor of Multidisciplinary Letters. Life and career Asim was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1962. He attended public schools there before studying at Northwestern University. In welcoming Asim to ''The Crisis'' in August 2007, then-publisher Roger Wilkins said: "Mr. Asim is a seasoned editor, a fine writer and author of a new best selling book. He is a gentleman devoted to the cause of racial justice, is excited about his new role ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Infobox writer may be used to summarize information about a person who is a writer/author (includes screenwriters). If the writer-specific fields here are not needed, consider using the more general ; other infoboxes there can be found in :People and person infobox templates. This template may also be used as a module (or sub-template) of ; see WikiProject Infoboxes/embed for guidance on such usage. Syntax The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article. All fields are optional. Any unused parameter names can be left blank or omitted. Parameters Please remove any parameters from an article's infobox that are unlikely to be used. All parameters are optional. Unless otherwise specified, if a parameter has multiple values, they should be comma-separated using the template: : which produces: : , language= If any of the individual values contain commas already, add to use semi-colons as separators: : which produces: : , pseu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Of Illinois At Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the founding campus and flagship institution of the University of Illinois System. With over 59,000 students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States. The university contains 16 schools and colleges and offers more than 150 undergraduate and over 100 graduate programs of study. The university holds 651 buildings on and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also operates a research park home to innovation centers for over 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Univ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tracy K
Tracy, Tracey, or Tracie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tracy (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname, also encompassing spelling variations Places United States * Tracy, California ** Tracy Municipal Airport (California), airport owned by the City of Tracy ** Deuel Vocational Institution, a California state prison sometimes referred to as "Tracy" ** Tracy station, a train station in southern Tracy, California * Tracy, a Wallingford, Connecticut#Principal communities, neighborhood in Wallingford, Connecticut * Tracy, Illinois * Tracy, Indiana * Tracy, Iowa * Tracy, Kentucky * Tracy, Minnesota * Tracy, Missouri * Tracy, Montana * Tracy, Oklahoma * Tracy City, Tennessee Elsewhere * Tracy, New Brunswick, Canada * Tracy Glacier (Greenland) Music * Tracie (singer) (Tracie Young, born 1965), British singer * Tracie (album), ''Tracie'' (album), a 1999 album by Tracie Spencer * Tracy (The Cuff Links song), "Tra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Lehman
David Lehman (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for '' The Best American Poetry''. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such publications as ''Newsweek'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''The New York Times''. In 2006, Lehman served as Editor for the new ''Oxford Book of American Poetry''. He taught and was the Poetry Coordinator at The New School in New York City until May 2018. Career Born in New York City on June 11, 1948,David Lehman at poets.org David Lehman grew up the son of European Holocaust refugees in Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood of Inwood. He attended Stuyvesant High School
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Tony Medina
Tony Medina (José Antonio Medina) was a Cuban-born songwriter and writer of popular literature. He is known for the diversity of his musical compositions, which have been recorded by top Latin music artists like Rocio Jurado, Daniela Romo, and Alicia Villareal. His poetry has been published in literary anthologies. Career Medina's professional songwriting career began in December 1992, when "Para Que Te Quedes Conmigo" (To Keep You With Me), performed by Mexican superstar Daniela Romo, reached number-one in Billboard Magazine's Hot Latin Tracks Chart. The song remained in the top three chart positions for twelve consecutive weeks and went on to become one of the year's biggest Latin music hits in the United States, Central and South America. In Broadcast Music, Inc's (BMI's) inaugural Latin Music Awards ceremony held in 1993, Medina was honored for writing one of the year's most performed songs. Shortly after his first hit, Spanish superstar, Rocío Jurado, included Medina's " ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joanne V
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Joanne may refer to: Music * ''Joanne'' (album), 2016 album by Lady Gaga ** "Joanne" (Lady Gaga song), a 2016 song from the album ''Joanne'' * "Joanne" (Michael Nesmith song), a 1970 song from the album ''Magnetic South'' * "Joanne", a song by Cherry Ghost from the 2014 album ''Herd Runners'' Other uses * Joanne (given name) * Joanne (''Coronation Street''), a character from the British television soap opera ''Coronation Street'' *JoAnne's Bed and Back, defunct U.S. furniture retailer See also * Jo-Ann (other) * * Joanna (other) * Joannes (died 425), western Roman emperor * Jehanne (other) * Jeanne (other) * Joan (other) Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters ** Joan of Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African Americans, African-American-led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. The movement expanded from the accomplishments of artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Famously referred to by Larry Neal as the "aesthetic and spiritual sister of Black Power", BAM applied these same political ideas to Visual arts, art and literature. and artists found new inspiration in their African heritage as a way to present the African-American culture, black experience in America. Artists such as Aaron Douglas (artist), Aaron Douglas, Hale Woodruff, and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller pioneered the movement with a distinctly modernist aesthetic. This style influenced the proliferation of African American art during the twentieth century. The poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is widely recognized as the founder of BAM. In 1965, he established the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Quraysh Ali Lansana
Quraysh Ali Lansana (born Ron Myles September 13, 1964, Enid, Oklahoma) is an American poet, book editor, civil rights historian, and professor. He has authored 20 books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature. In 2022, he was a Tulsa Artist Fellow and Director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, where he was also Lecturer in Africana Studies and English. Lansana is also credited as creator and executive producer of "Focus: Black Oklahoma," a monthly radio program on the public radio station KOSU. Early life and education Born Ron Myles in Enid, Oklahoma, on September 13, 1964, he graduated Enid High School in 1982. Prior to focusing on poetry, in the 1980s he studied broadcast journalism at the University of Oklahoma and worked as an assignment editor at KWTV. After spending a year living in Medicine Park, Oklahoma, Lansana decided to move to Chicago in 1988. There he worked as an editor for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Samiya Bashir
Samiya A. Bashir is a queer American artist, poet, and author. Much of Bashir's poetry explores the intersections of culture, change, and identity through the lens of race, gender, the body, and sexuality. She is currently the June Jordan visiting professor at Columbia University of New York. Bashir is the first black woman to receive the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature. She was also the third black woman to serve as tenured professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Bashir moved to Los Angeles where she became involved in theatre, before pursuing a career in writing. She attended the University of California and became the institution's poet laureate in 1994. After leaving California and moving east, Bashir worked in magazine publishing and briefly taught high school. After moving to New York City in 1997, she continued to write poetry and essays, publishing three full-length collections of poetry. Biography Early life and education Samiya Bashir was born in Ypsi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Washington University In St
Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C. Washington may also refer to: Places England * Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of the family of George Washington * Washington, Tyne and Wear, a town in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough * Washington, West Sussex, a village and civil parish Greenland * Cape Washington, Greenland * Washington Land Philippines *New Washington, Aklan, a municipality *Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar *Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental *Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate *Washington, a barangay in Surigao City United States * Fort Washington (disambiguati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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G'Ra Asim
G’Ra Asim is a writer and musician, and an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of ''Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother'', published by Beacon Press. Asim has served as Writing Director at the African American Policy Forum, a gender and race justice think tank at Columbia Law School and a graduate teaching fellow in Columbia University's Undergraduate Writing Program. He sings, plays bass, and writes lyrics for DIY pop punk quintet, Baby Got Back Talk. Early life Asim was born in St. Louis. He is the son of author, poet, playwright, and professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College, Jabari Asim. Education Asim obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University in 2018, and a Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College in 2014, where he graduated magna cum laude. Writing Asim is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Washing ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Boston, Massachusetts
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |