AFROETRY

Description:

Linda believes blacks should be proud of their heritage and others should try to understand it. In this book, she uses poetry as a means of teaching black people about their history, heritage and culture. These are lessons that were never taught in school. Though many of her poems reveal the hardships people of color have endured, they were written to open people's eyes to the fact that blacks are a strong race of people able to succeed against all odds, while at the same time contributing significantly to human progress. She wrote this book with zealous devotion to people of African descent, in hopes of reminding them of their strengths, inspiring them to get back on track, and motivating them to strive to be all that God intended.

subjects: Afrocentric Poetry,  Poetry (poetic works by one author)

People: Dr. Carter G. Woodson,  Farrah Gray,  Luther Vandross

Places: Africa,  Oklahoma,  New York,  Tuskegee,  Missouri

Times: Set from the time we arrived in the US as slaves to the present (2005).