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I am happy Ruth is getting the credit she most certainly deserves. There are so many people still around that loved her, and ...

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Poet and Worcester State University professor Heather Treseler is a Pushcart Prize winner for her poem "Purpura." The ...

Kentucky-born Blanche Taylor Dickinson was another figure of the Harlem Renaissance and published journalism, short stories and poems while working as a teacher in segregated schools. And builds a ...