Poet Amanda Gorman Made History With Her Inauguration Speech
The Youth Poet Laureate read her piece “The Hill We Climb” written especially for the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Amanda Gorman reminds us that poetry is not a luxury
“The purifying power of poetry has existed as long as humans have wielded words. And for women especially, as [Audre] Lorde said, poetry ‘is a vital necessity of our existence.'”
James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965
In 1965 at the University of Cambridge, two of the foremost American intellectuals were challenged with the question: ‘Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro?’