At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

Gwen Ford Faulkenberry is an author, teacher and award-winning columnist from Ozark. Email her at gfaulkenberry@hotmail.com.

Danny Klecko, one of the most recognizable and outspoken personalities on the Twin Cities literary scene, has paused his ...

It is worth remembering both our nation s history and God s redemptive work to free us from the penalty of our sin ...

It's not just an honour for my poems but an honour for dialogue as well. I belong to the tribal community and write what's rooted in the land, which has given me a different perspective.

I don't know." Ask a Persian? "Why no, my friend! I hate poetry! It's so antiquated!" "Oh. Do you know any good poems?" "Yes, ...

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the ...

I attend a Bible reading group. We read scriptures from the lectionary that many churches use. Synagogues in the time of ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

A Juneteenth weekend conference in Durham, N.C., looks to establish itself as a place that carries on a cultural legacy.