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  • Happy Earth Day!

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    Earth day is here! It’s the day to celebrate the plants, the animals, and environmentalism as a whole – a day that Dr. Seuss would approve of as we come together as a nation and “speak for the trees.” On this day, April 22, in the year 1970, Earth day…

  • Presidents Are Authors, Authors Are Presidents

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    Being the President of the United States is much more than the average public government job. It’s an unfathomable responsibility that has only been held by forty-five democratically elected men. They are the forefront—the point men—of this great nation. Presidents, while they are historically educated, male, and rhetorically effective speakers,…

  • 8 Things You May Not Know About Alice Walker

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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!

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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…