Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

The author took the train to London one weekend in the summer of 1944. She met a girl named Elsie, who was a domestic servant for some university man. A soldier on the train gave them cigarettes.

"When We Speak" is an ode to Black womxn who have boldly harnessed their voices, art, and labor to dismantle oppressive ...