"And I believe that the great poetry in the United States is the poetry that came out of and still comes out of the black experience." Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou – “Mystical, Magical, Musical, and Lyrical” https://youtu.be/IzJSQXbM_UA
- Aja Monet - “#sayhername” https://youtu.be/aL_yzeM7wY0
- Paul Laurence Dunbar – “We Wear the Mask” read by Kevin Young and Elizabeth Alexander https://youtu.be/VJzmnz1Td3g
- Alison C. Rollins – “Why Is We Americans” https://youtu.be/YbkuZVa9zns
- Gwendolyn Brooks – “The Second Sermon on the Warpland” read by Elizabeth Alexander https://youtu.be/RxIjZwImL34
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – “The Slave Mother” read by Phylicia Rashad https://youtu.be/AdNDuqicEis
- Claude McKay – “If We Must Die” read by Kevin Young https://youtu.be/ovjB8VIMuvc
- Lift Every Voice: Los Angeles – conversation with Robin Coste Lewis, Kevin Young, Amanda Gorman, and others https://youtu.be/wpp2uQOQphk