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Why have I walled in my Poet's Voice by Jan Carew
Recited by Sister Marika
Okay, team! Pre-game for Black Poetry Bingo starts NOW. 🎯 The mission:
Time to dust off those anthologies and find your new favorite poet. ✨
Think of them as your ultimate cheat sheet. A few heavy hitters:
👉🏿 “The 100 Best African American Poems: A Black Poetry
Collection” by Nikki Giovanni
👉🏿 “This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black
Poets” by Kwame Alexander
👉🏿 “The Present is a Dangerous Place to Live” by
Keorapetse Kgositsile
📌 Pro Tip: You can purchase these from a
Black-owned bookstore OR reserve them at your local library. Support
your community, expand your mind!
#blackpoetrybingo #readmorepoetry #Bookstagram
#BlackOwnedBookstores
Ready to fill your February with powerful words? ✨ Join us for Black Poetry Bingo — a month-long celebration of Black poets,voices, and verse.
📅 Runs: Feb 1 – Feb 28
📝 Howto play:
✅ Complete 5 squares in a row (anydirection)
✅ Only 1 square per day — slowdown and savor the poetry
✅ Share your journey and tag @KotokoAcademy with #blackpoetrybingo so we can cheer you on!
Let’s discover new voices, revisit favorites, and buildcommunity—one poem at a time. Who’s in?
🔗 kotokoacademy.info/black-poetry-bingo
Mama say she don't want no beckies in her house.
The training is over. The real mission begins. 🕵🏾
We intercepted enemy intel—a letter to an Agent on the Motherland with a plan to keep Pan-Africanism stuck in the past. This semester, our scholars build the counter-strategy.
We have 72 hours.
72 hours until our counter-operation begins.
72 hours to enroll your scholar in Afrika's Army 2.
72 hours before the first class decrypts this letter and builds the strategy to break it.
This isn’t a game. It’s training for the future they’re trying to prevent.
Your scholar doesn’t need to just read history—they need to learn how to change it.
3 DAYS LEFT.
The mission is waiting.
The cohort is forming.
The link is here.
➡ https://kotokoacademy.info/afrikasarmy
✨ The Kwanzaa Kodes are HERE! ✨
Get ready for 7 days of puzzles and ciphers, each celebrating our principles, culture, and community. I’ve shared this tradition with my scholars for years, and now I'm bringing it to you!
🗓 Every day of Kwanzaa, a new code will drop right here.
💬 Krack it? Comment “KODE KRACKED!”
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Let’s build, celebrate, and have fun together! Your family is going to love this.
Sydney Pritchett, freshman at Spelman College, gives her reflection-review of the first Abibitumi Abibifahodie Film Festival (November 28-30, 2025).
