Poems for this unit:
“Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa
“I Dream a World” by Langston Hughes
“I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes
“The Little Rock 9” by Afaa Michael Weaver
“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All” by Maya Angelou
Poetry by Walt Whitman
Modernist poets
Beat poets
"On the Pulse of the Morning" Maya Angelou
"Beyond Grief and Grievance" by Philip Metres