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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is from Anne Spencer. Spencer was a poet and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, despite living all her life…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a short story from Paul Laurence Dunbar, widely regarded to be America's first great black poet. Dunbar showed literary talent…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by John Jea, a preacher and author. Jea was abducted and sold into slavery as a young…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a story by Charles W Chesnutt. One of the first black Americans to be acknowledged as a great writer, Chesnutt's…
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This section of a page from "The Crisis" children's issue shows Newsome's poem. From "The Crisis" vol. 24 no. 6, October 1922. Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is from Harriet Beecher Stowe. Beecher Stowe was an American author and activist, equally well known for her writing and her…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who along with Wordsworth ushered in the Romantic poetic movement. Coleridge was seen by…
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Illustration from McClure's Magazine by Edmund J. Sullivan Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is from Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Kavanagh was born in Hampshire to an Irish…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's piece comes from poet Phillis Wheatley. Born in West Africa she was kidnapped in 1761 around the age of seven and sold to…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's piece comes from French author Guy de Maupassant. Born in northern France in 1850 he is considered a master of the short story.…