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 Historian, Carter G. Woodson
Today, we cele...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Rebuilding and Rebuilding
...He understood what I now know
But did not at first
For I had not seen broken children before
Now that I have I understand
They can be tainted and tortured
into submission before they reach sch...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Where Angels Fear To Tread
...I was a picked on,
bullied, browbeaten, buffaloed boy
from Buffalo New York.
I grew up on Buffalo’s lower east side,
the ghetto by another name.
The Frederick Douglass towers.
Formerly the Tal...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, confidence, courage, encouraging, life,
Form: Free verse
A Theatre of the Absurd
...Theatre of the Absurd
Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff clap for him
and who fast is bringing a nation...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, horror,
Form: Quatrain
Fallen Leaders
...THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG.
THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING.
THEY DO.
THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEV...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, education, history, philosophy, tribute,
Form: Narrative
My Heritage and Culture
...We have come a long way we have been fighting for centuries and decades to get
where we are.
Jim Crow and the Segregated south couldn't keep us down.
We fought to be equal by marching the str...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, black-african amerme, culture, me,
Form: I do not know?
Greatness!
...Only through adversity can GREATNESS be achieved.
"If there's no struggle, there's no progress",
this is what Frederick Douglass believed.
To tap into our inner stength & push forward even
whe...
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Categories:
frederick douglass, black-african amer
Form: I do not know?