🦁 Our Library Lions are celebrating #PoemInYourPocketDay by reading a poem from one of our poetry postcards, City Trees by Edna St. Vincent Millay!
Celebrate with us by sharing a #PocketPoem you love or writing a new one. #NationalPoetryMonth
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On November 14, 1960, flanked by four federal marshals, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges crossed the threshold of William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana to become one of the first Black children to attend a desegregated school in the South. That was 60 years ago today.
History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
—Seamus Heaney
It’s back! What’s #TheBirdOnFire? It’s a PVS blog run by the Upper School Journalism class! Dont miss out🚨 they already have 160 subscribers and nearly 30,000 views!
Breaking News: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced that her cancer had returned, but said she was “fully able” to continue her job on the Supreme Court https://t.co/gFFEkd7QYf
"What about my own experiences of racism didn’t break through to them? If they’re suddenly so desperate to understand the Black perspective on race in America, why haven’t they just come out and asked? Haven’t I been here this whole time?"
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“What defines us as human beings is our sense of privacy, & while we are social beings, & political beings, & therefore public beings—whether we like it or not—there is a very viable, very valid core in the human personality which keeps certain things to itself.” —Wole Soyinka
We are thrilled to share that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo has been appointed to a second term by @LibnOfCongress Carla Hayden. Harjo will launch a new Library of Congress collection and online map featuring Native poets and poetry. https://t.co/wzKo6C74bs
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