At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1928 marriage of activist/publisher W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter, Yolande Du Bois, to prominent poet Countee Cullen was more than a celebrity wedding. It was a ...

Ps 194 Countee Cullen is a public school located in New York, NY, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Ps 194 Countee Cullen is 148 and the school serves PK-5. At Ps 194 Countee ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing,/to make a poet black and bid him sing!” With these words, Countee Cullen ...

Has it been a year already!? Just twelve months ago we celebrated Gay History Month – and, like clockwork, it’s that time again! For our first installment of this month-long look back, let’s shine ...

One of the Harlem Renaissance’s most important poet’s meteoric rise to fame was followed by a long an series of disappointments. A fast starter and an early finisher: Like many another Wunderkind, ...

Her name is Pe’Tehn Raighn-Kem and in case you missed it, she’s a three-year-old who recited Countee Cullen’s “Hey Black Child” so adorably amazing, we can’t help but share! It only took Pe’Tehn a ...

Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he ...

CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, ...

(The Root) — On June 4, the New York State Writers Hall of Fame will induct five outstanding authors, including Calvin Trillin, Alice McDermott, Walter Mosley, Marilyn Hacker and the late Countee ...