Sonnet Alice Dunbar Nelson's 'Sonnet': violets, longing, and a rediscovered soul in a brief fourteen‑line meditation on beauty and memory. Check it out.

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The 🔺Library Is OPEN! Honorary Member, Soror #AliceDunbarNelson and Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, Facade Tribute at The Ohio State University’s Ohio (Student) Union, Columbus, Ohio. #ArtsandLetters @dstinc1913.bsky.social

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TODAY’S AFRO BIRTHDAYS ! SPORTSCASTER, STUART SCOTT ! NBA PLAYER LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE ! POET/JOURNALIST/ACTIVIST, ALICE DUNBAR NELSON ! ACTOR, TRAI BYERS ! #stuartscott #alicedunbarnelson #blackexcellence #blackhistory

“It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.”

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✒ #AliceDunbarNelson, African American poet and activist, was #BOTD 19 July 1875 #Poetry #Literature

WORDWEAVER: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was a prolific writer, a diligent activist, and an essential contributor to the Harlem Renaissance.

(See Essential Short Stories by Women of the Harlem Renaissance: Vol 1.)

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Celebrate Women’s History Month and explore Villanova student Atamini Akoma’s “‘Boys don’t tell their hearts out’: Black Boyhood and Masculinity,” an interpretation of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s short story “His Heart’s Desire.” www.taughtbyliterature.org/atamini-akom....

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Poem of the week: The Proletariat Speaks by Alice Dunbar-Nelson A remarkable piece of oratory records without explicit comment the stark social divisions of an unequal world

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A remarkable piece of oratory records without explicit comment the stark social divisions of an unequal world

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Mardi grass in New Orleans late 1800

A Carnival Jangle by Alice Dunbar Nelson

A Carnival Jangle written by Alice Dunbar Nelson, a black bisexual woman born in 1875 who was a poet, journalist and political activist

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This biography has been on my list for a couple of years. I discovered #AliceDunbarNelson in grad school, but could not find many texts about her life. Thankful that Dr. Tara T. Green helped remedy that.
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Alice Dunbar Nelson-Author One of the Blacks born free after slavery & alumni Harlem Renaissance. Advocated for Women's empowerment .

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