Maya Angelou is one of the most famous female black poets. Her poems often reflect the struggles and experiences of black women. They address themes of racism, discrimination, and the fight for ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Performance poet Sophia Thakur has been featured ... Part of my work was about saying, “Look, we are also here, we are also black, we are also women.’ The work can be very tiring to keep ...

These eight books by Black women speak to the healing and resilience needed to survive another Trump presidency.

Gilkes, professor emeritus at Colby College, will be giving a lecture, “African American Women and Social Change: Stages of Liberation” at 3 p.m., Feb.

She also edited a groundbreaking anthology of Black women poets, “Night Comes Softly,” and helped found a publishing cooperative that promoted works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker ...