Last year, friends Lucy Smith of the Lucy Smith Quintet and journalist Cheryl Corley came together to create a summertime experience titled “Chicago Bound” that melded Great Migration stories with the ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WMBD) — Five young poets from Peoria are being honored after winning a statewide competition. They are part of the 25 winners of the 2025 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, said ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Poet Gwendolyn Brooks would have turned 100 this week, and that birthday is being commemorated with new books, poetry readings, writing contests and even a bus tour through her hometown ...

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On cover: Black words that say: Don't cry; scream. Preface / Don L. Lee -- From the Poem Listen Comrades -- From The Way of Life -- From the Foreword to Black Fire -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- But He Was ...

You can read this quote by Gwendolyn Brooks, from her poem “A Song in the Front Yard” (1945), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read the quote in its full context here. Suggested Reading Black ...