Aberjhani's Blog: Notes of a 21st Century Digital Scribe - Posts Tagged "history"

With the world still becoming accustomed to the election of the United States' first African-American president, Black History Month 2009 is already guaranteed to down in history like none other. Below are links to works on African Americans both famous and not-so-famous, though every bit as significant. The first is a poetic tribute to my Grandmother, who made history just by living her life. The second is a review of collected nonfiction by the great Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison; the third an inaugural poem dedicated to President Obama; and the fourth a review of poetry by the Inauguration Day poet Elizabeth Alexander. I hope you enjoy them all.


Photographed Light of My Grandmother’s Soul url:
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Review of Toni Morrison's WHAT MOVES AT THE MARGIN url:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewa...

There upon a Bough of Hope and Audacity url: http://www.authorsden.com/categories/...

Review of Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander url: http://authorsden.com/visit/viewartic...

As a home to more than 200 families, Robert M. Hitch Village is the largest government housing project in Savannah, Georgia, and just happens to be the place where this particular author grew up until the age of twelve. Growing up there as a black youth in the 1960s, I never imagined that one day an African-American president, several years younger than me, would provide the economic push that would make it possible for local leaders to schedule the demolition and reconstruction of my old neighborhood. Just as I had never imagined a day could ever come when such a course of action would be necessary. Nevertheless, more than half the project’s 337 units are presently unoccupied and boarded windows are a traumatic sight for both current and past residents.

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