Title: 10 Incredible Poems to Read for Black History Month | Poem Analysis
Headings: Black History Poems
Black History Poems
10 Incredible Black History Poems
Bars Fight by Lucy Terry
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
A Brief History Of Hostility by Jamaal May
History as Process by Amiri Baraka
Miz Rosa Rides The Bus by Angela Jackson
Canary By Rita Dove
Afterimages by Audre Lorde
Praise Song For The Day by Elizabeth Alexander
On The Pulse Of Morning by Maya Angelou
We Should Make A Documentary About Spades by Terrence Hayes

Content: poor white people, African Americans haunted by the history of slavery, Native Americans pushed away from their own land by settlers, immigrants in search of a better future. He sees America as just as everywhere else, where the rich and powerful stomp over the poor and marginalized. Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free. (…)
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again! Read more poems of Langston Hughes. A Brief History Of Hostility by Jamaal May
Jamaal May’s five-part poem ‘ A Brief History Of Hostility ’ explores the themes of life, fire, death, and peace. May’s use of repetition and captivating images in the poem helps to explore the oppression and the hard-earned peace.