Mahershala Ali Reads Gwendolyn Brooks's poem “Malcolm X”

Phylicia Rashad Recites “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Mahershala Ali Discusses Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Malcolm X”

Anis Mojgani: “Closer”

Alison C. Rollins Reads “Why Is We Americans”

Ishion Hutchinson: “After the Hurricane”

Willie Perdomo Reads “Bembé-Faced” and “Arroz con Son y Clave”

Toi Derricotte: “Black Boys Play the Classics”

Gary Jackson Reads “Kansas”