SSgt. Acey introduces Elizabeth Alexander’s Praise Song for the Day, written for Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. The poem honors history, resilience, and unity, urging us to appreciate our ancestors ...

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In my inauguration speech, I talked about a line from an Elizabeth Alexander poem in which she asks, “Are we not of interest to each other?” As I said then, we must be. Being of interest to each other ...

American Sublime, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at a New York museum and the most comprehensive showing of her work.

naming board member Elizabeth Alexander as lead plaintiff. The board's website states that Alexander is "an acclaimed poet, author and professor. Her writing explores such subjects as race ...

The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.” — the Prophet Muhammad Muhammad decried ignorance.

Charles Flowers was born on Nov. 12, 1942, in Knoxville. The Knoxville News Sentinel published a notice that Howard Fischer Flowers, his father, had been granted leave from boot camp at Ft. Benning, ...

An exceptionally pleasant surprise is former Philippine Star columnist Isagani R. Cruz’s first novel, So Heaven, published by Milflores Publishing and recently launched at DLSU Taft.