Tyehimba Jess

Poet and writer

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African American sculptor

American musician

American slave

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Vaudeville performer

American soprano singer

American composer, musician, and pianist

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Musical genius: pianist and composer, blind, former slave

Actor

African-American vaudevillian

American musicologist

American blues composer and musician

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Poet

Poet, essayist, professor

Poet

Short fiction writer, poet

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Poet

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American poet and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner

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German-American poet and translator

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Poet, writer

A Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright

American poet

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Jamaican poet

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American poet, essayist, playwright, and the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018.

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Author, educator, poet

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American writer and poet

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Poet, critic, translator and professor

American novelist

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American journalist

American poet, educator

American writer and editor

American writer and educator

American poet and author

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Novelist, memoirist

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American Mojave poet, writer and basketball player

American non-fiction author and editorial writer of The New York Times

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