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History Black African American Poems

These History Black African American poems are examples of Black African American poems about History. These are the best examples of Black African American History poems written by international poets.


The Black Experience
Black History Month began as "***** History Week"
Our holiday was adopted at a time when the country was bleak
Created in 1926 by noted African American...

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© Floyd Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appreciation, black african american,



Premium Member King Solomon and I will Fly a kite today
King Solomon and I will fly a kite 
On this historical Good Friday, 
we seek justice for the young lady
Her father made her act as...

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Categories: black african american, angst, anxiety, black african

Premium Member On Slavery
History is no mystery 
Unless you were born
A descendant of scorned
African tradesmen and tradeswomen 
Stolen from their lives
Of husband wives
Children and wise old ones
Whose brown...

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Categories: black african american, abuse, allah, america, anti

The Last Blunder
The walls are imprisoned in silence,
A heavy, powerless silence, shattered
By voices, tears, and crowded souls.
Justice hides in the corridors of greed,
Crimes are sentences uttered in...

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Categories: black african american, africa, america, black african

Black Boy
black boy hungry
feed black boy crumb 
black boy needs education
black boy dumb
but the black boy
don't need handouts
he wants what he owns
government take and take
but they...

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Categories: black african american, africa, anger, black african



Premium Member Our Love Remains
In our Hearts Burn…A Love of God and Country that...through it all...has not diminished! We Press on, Amen!


There comes a time when…we…

must pause to diligently...

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© Joyce Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: america, black african american,

Premium Member IN THE CHANGING TIME A'COMING
Indeed, the truth will always be self-evident

and beyond all lies;

Though they laid down the 5th to ensure deniability

of evident charges,

Over the trials of history—his-story—true crime...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member IN THE SEASON OF TRUTH
“…ye have been with me

                    ...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member Black History
History clearly reveals that Black slaves
ENDURED the worst of their real life NIGHTMARES.
There is also the sense that their hearts
ASURED them that their future and...

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Categories: black african american,

Black History Is History
Black History is Our history 
Black History is American history 
Black History is World history 
Black History is The history 
Black History IS History 

Although...

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Categories: black african american, change,

Premium Member MARVEL LEGACY VOICES
Voices of accomplishment and establishment
Legacy of wisdom
Challenges through opposition
Determined in recognition
Fulfillment their guarantee
Encouragement for us in the present day
Spoken words of be committed, and not...

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Categories: black african american, adventure, america, appreciation, black

Premium Member AT THE CROSSROAD OF CHANGE
AT THE CROSSROADS OF CHANGE

On the wings of time, we’ve soared
From the canyons of history to the horizon
That has become ourstory’s beginnings:-

From the clefs of...

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Categories: black african american, black

Premium Member YESTERDAY REVIEWED AND RENEWED AGAIN
	


YESTERDAY VIEWED AND RENEWED AGAIN

It is being pontificated
that we should be on the right side
Of history;
But if we were to do so,
We would be on...

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Categories: allegory, black african american,

Premium Member TO THE TASK AHEAD FOR OUR WRITERS
TO THE TASK AHEAD FOR OUR WRITERS

No one can write our story but us;
His story merely footnotes us:-
In the culture of the penned word,
We must...

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Categories: analogy, black african american,

Premium Member CHANG A'COMING YALL
CHANGE A COMING Y’ALL

They’ll be trying to rewrite it all tomorrow, 
Unaware of our copyright today;
What’s to come, we’ve already claimed,
And its eventuality cannot be...

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Categories: black african american, allegory, america, analogy, black


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