Thoughtful Thursday

Thoughtful Thursday: Dunbar, Walker and Spring

Today's Thoughtful Thursday features poems from two iconic African-American poets, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Alice Walker. Dunbar's "By The Stream" cautions us to remember to look beyond the sparkle and glow of personality to determine the depth of character. Walker's "Before You Knew You Owned It" offers words of wisdom about managing expectations and guarding vulnerability. On the lighter [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:41:58-04:00May 28th, 2015|Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Dunbar, Walker and Spring

Thoughtful Thursday: Graduation Quotes

It is graduation season, and speakers everywhere are polishing up their speeches and getting ready to share their wisdom and advice with the Class of 2015 and their families. Today's Thoughtful Thursday features quotes from past graduation speeches. Some are funny, some thought provoking, some inspirational. Enjoy, and Congrats to the graduates! "Think hard, always think hard, but don't [...]

By |2023-05-21T17:41:58-04:00May 22nd, 2015|Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Graduation Quotes

Thoughtful Thursday: Terrance Hayes

Today's Thoughtful Thursday presents the work of award-winning poet Terrance Hayes. Born in 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina, Hayes received a BA from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. "Lighthead", his collection of poems published in 2010, won a National Book Award, and Hayes received a [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:46:49-04:00May 14th, 2015|Ages 16-18, Cultural, Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Terrance Hayes

Thoughtful Thursday: More Protest Poetry

Hard to believe we need protest poetry again this year, and we are only four months in. Today's Thoughtful Thursday salutes Haki Madhubuti, poet and member of the Black Arts Movement. Madhubuti's work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) informs his activist poetics. As he [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:46:49-04:00April 30th, 2015|Featured, Latest News, Resources, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: More Protest Poetry

Thoughtful Thursday: Poems for Jacob Lawrence

Ten African-American poets contributed to the Migration Series Poetry Suite created in celebration of the Jacob Lawrence exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The works of a few of them are below. Enjoy. Thataway And the migrants kept coming —Jacob Lawrence Was walking. Was walking & then waiting for a train, the 12:40 to [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:46:49-04:00April 23rd, 2015|Academics, Featured, Latest News, Resources, Saving Our Sons, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Poems for Jacob Lawrence

Thoughtful Thursday: Justice Poems

This week the world watched the video of Walter Scott being shot and killed by the South Carolina police officer who has since been charged with murder and fired from the force. This week our Thoughtful Thursday offering is focused on justice. L. Chris Stewart, the lawyer the Scott family hired once they learned of the video's existence, had [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:46:49-04:00April 9th, 2015|Featured, Latest News, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Justice Poems

Thoughtful Thursday: We Real Cool

After a wonderful Spring Break, is GCP back in action with this week's Thoughtful Thursday. Today we feature a classic Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "We Real Cool", written in 1960, and "The Golden Shovel", a poem written in response by Terrance Hayes in 2010. Hayes is a poet who considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity in his [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:46:49-04:00April 3rd, 2015|Academics, Ages 16-18, Latest News, Parents, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: We Real Cool

Thoughtful Thursday: Children

GCP is back in the saddle after a wonderful trip to Miami, where among other things we sat on the beach and talked with a wonderful group of African American moms about parenting. (More on that in the next post.) At the end of the discussion one of the moderators read a poem which I hadn't heard in ages [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:46:49-04:00March 6th, 2015|Thoughtful Thursday|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Children

Thoughtful Thursday: Valentine Love

Happy Valentine's Day! In honor of this love-celebrating holiday, here are some love poems from Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), renowned poet, novelist and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Dunbar's first poems were published in a Dayton newspaper when he was 14 years old. While much of Dunbar's more well known [...]

By |2023-05-21T16:44:35-04:00February 12th, 2015|Entertainment, Thoughtful Thursday, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Thoughtful Thursday: Valentine Love
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