'Brown girl, brown girl' poem celebrates Kamala Harris making history as 1st woman of color vice president "I see a vice president that looks like me," the poem reads.

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At the heart of Mahogany Browne’s poem “Working Title” is a question: how does a poet begin to address the killing of Michael Brown? Browne, who began working as a full-time writer in 2006 ...

Depending on how you look at things and your level of interest, as one delves into the various aspects of history you find that not every piece of it is overly revelatory. Oftentimes, the minutiae of ...

Fall colors doesn't just refer to the trees and leaves – festive imagery like pumpkins, candy corn and apples also fall in this autumn color palette.

Growing up in San Antonio, Ariana Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself -- an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family -- both in her community and literature.

My first year at Brown passed by like a speeding train. I remember it only in images—snapshots, swathes of color, moments. I went to a lot of places. I said a lot of things, some of which were true ...

Chicago poet Leslé Honoré wrote "Brown Girl, Brown Girl" in 2016, but after Kamala Harris became vice president, she updated the poem and it inspired countless of young girls to dream big.

A Penn professor has stepped into controversy for a new poem describing the autopsy of Michael Brown, the young man whose shooting by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., sparked months of protests ...