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avery r. young

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Inaugural Poet Laureate - Chicago

 Chicago, IL
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Joined June 2013
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🫶🏿 – at Chicago, IL
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) profile pictureAFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
@AfricanArchivesOct 29
“The conqueror writes history. They came, they conquered and they wrote. Now you don’t expect people who came to invade us to write the truth about us” —Miriam Makeba
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✊🏿 – at Chicago, IL
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) profile pictureDr. Allison Wiltz
@queenie4rmnolaOct 29
Respect Black People
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They understand each other too well 🧠🧠
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sublime blk! – at East Ithaca, NY
Hardest Cuts 🎞️ (@hardestcuts) profile pictureHardest Cuts 🎞️@hardestcutsOct 25
A lifetime of silence broken in one meal. 🎬 Moonlight (2016)
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Sherrel Higbie (@SherMarluv) profile pictureSherrel Higbie@SherMarluvOct 26
The gorgeous and talented, Dorothy Dandridge.🌹
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SOS Band killed this song🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Cadillac Bishop@CadillacBishopOct 23
Yall remember these at your grandmama church back in the day with no central air conditioner
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59 years ago today, Miles Davis's "Sorcerer" was released. Miles with the second great quintet. Wayne Shorter’s writing is central, and Hancock, Carter and Williams keep the music open and elastic.
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@SebastianAvenueOct 22
Happy 90th Birthday to activist & co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale.
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Y’all look Janet, Queen, and Missy! 😭😍
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Janet Jackson’s introductory speech for Missy Elliott at the Gala Of The Stars ✨♥️
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Writer James Baldwin visits Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party co-founder and chairman, in the San Francisco County Jail. ❤️💚🖤 Baldwin and Seale (1969) by Stephen Shames Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library #jamesbaldwin #bobbyseale
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just GLOWING on that stage
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@CoededMarshallOct 22
Queen Mary J. Blige 👑
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Chicago's inaugural Poet Laureate and cultural leader Avery R. Young is one of five commissioned artists debuting new work at THE PURSUIT: A People's Salon Register for free and join us on October 28 at the historic Ramova Theatre: ilhumanities.org/pursuit #ILHumanities #Salon
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Janet Jackson at the Gala Of The Stars red carpet!
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Happy 89th Birthday, Black Panther Party Co-Founder Bobby Seale. ❤️💚🖤
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۟@wecantbedudsOct 20
one of the most iconic photographs in pop culture history.
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#WOMENSART
@womensart1Oct 19
Alice Coltrane ( 1937–2007), accomplished jazz pianist, harpist & composer, whose talents were overshadowed by her much more famous husband, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane #WomensArt
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” —Martin Luther King
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