Program Introduction
• Historical Background & African-American Read-In by Eleanor Q. Tignor
The Negro National Hymn
• Lift Every Voice and Sing (directed by Jeremy Hutchins.)
Literary Voices by Chronology
• Phillis Wheatley (..From Africa to America) by Monica Aspianto
• Sojourner Truth (Arn’t I a Woman) by Sandra Rux
• Paul L. Dunbar (The Mask) by Linda Klein
• Langston Hughes (Daybreak in Alabama) by Margot Kohorn
• Langston Hughes (3 poems) by Michael Kashgarian
• Robert Hayden (Those Winter Sundays) by Susan Feinberg
• Maya Angelou (Sill I Rise) by Sandra Rux
• Audre Lorde (Who Said It Was Simple) by Linda Klein
• Toni Morrison (from 2017 Interview & from The Bluest Eye) by Eleanor Q. Tignor
• Paul Beatty (Gription) by Siobhan Carter
Reprise
• Paul L Dunbar (Keep A-pluggin’ Away) by Robert L. Green and Raymond B. Johnson
Tribute: Honorary CAAS Fellow 2020
Jonathan Holloway, Former Dean & CAAS Member
President-Elect, Rutgers University
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