But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...
The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years. State health officials said Friday ...
In 1963, the March on Washington immediately became one of the most important moments in American Civil Rights history – a moment so big, everyone knew they were a part of history as it happened. But ...
What will you be doing this weekend around the Jersey Shore? Cupid's Undie Run, Chili Cook-Off, Black History Month ...
An exhibit “Harlem Renaissance and the Renaissance Man” will be on display at t History & Mineral Museum through April 30. It focuses on Joplin native Langston Hughes, an African American poet, ...
Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...