Once

Name: Once
Author: acclaimed jazz poet Langston Hughes, Alice worked as a writer-in-residence for a number of colleges, and taught a course on Black Women’s writers at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. When she later taught at Wellesley, one student spoke of the reading list: “Alice had us read books by all these black women we’d never heard of. She unearthed a part of our history that we had been denied.”

by acclaimed jazz poet Langston Hughes, Alice worked as a writer-in-residence for a number of colleges, and taught a course on Black Women’s writers at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. When she later taught at Wellesley, one student spoke of the reading list: “Alice had us read books by all these black women we’d never heard of. She unearthed a part of our history that we had been denied.”

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