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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison!

February 18, 2017

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Also known as Chloe Anthony Wofford, Toni Morrison is a novelist, editor, playwright, and professor. From a working-class family, she is the second of four children. After finding her love for literature at a young age, she continued to study English at both Howard and Cornell University and has a…
8 Things You May Not Know About Alice Walker

February 9, 2017

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Alice Walker—novelist, poet, feminist, and civil rights activist—was born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is most famous for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which was later turned into a movie (1985) directed by Steven Spielberg and is still performed as a musical today. She had her hands…
Happy Birthday Langston Hughes!

February 1, 2017

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When I was in second grade, I fell in love with a poet. This was the first time I remember truly being in awe of words and their power, and I carried around his maroon book for a solid couple of months. It was The Dream Keeper and other Poems…