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  1. Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival Revisited: Black Womanist Archival Tradition and Archival Activism from 1973 to 2023
  2. Tiffany Caesar
  3. pp. 1-4
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947897
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  1. Art
  2. pp. 1-10
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947945
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  1. Honoring the 1973 Festival Participants
  2. Carolyn Coleman-Denard, Tonea Stewart
  3. pp. 5-11
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947898
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  1. Margaret Walker’s Literary and Moral Compass: Black Poets as Truth Tellers
  2. Maryemma Graham
  3. pp. 13-16
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947899
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  1. Margaret’s Daughters … Four Black Girls for Black Girls, and: Taking Root
  2. Shanna L. Smith
  3. pp. 18-21
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947900
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  1. 6TH Grade: Black History Month
  2. Jazmin Witherspoon
  3. pp. 22-23
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947901
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  1. J’Ouvert
  2. C.R. Glasgow
  3. p. 24
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947902
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  1. Fostering Jegnaship: Establishing a Black Women’s Writing Collective through Abpsi’s Principles
  2. Gabrielle Smith
  3. pp. 25-31
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947903
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  1. Breaking Up Fallow Ground: Sowing Seeds of Mentorship and Kinship to Create Social, Academic, and Political Community for Black Women Writers
  2. Charlotte Teague
  3. pp. 32-35
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947904
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  1. Womanist Therapies in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: Black Art as Spiritual Revival
  2. Tiffany Pennamon
  3. pp. 36-49
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947905
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  1. The (Non)Notable Network: Tracing Black Women’s Poetry Networks in and Around Jackson, Mississippi
  2. Bria E. Paige
  3. pp. 50-63
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947906
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  1. Lineage, Roots and Repair
  2. Porscha Simmons
  3. pp. 64-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947907
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  1. A Tribute to Phillis Wheatley: A conversation between Imani Perry and Joanne V. Gabbin
  2. Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Airea D. Matthews
  3. pp. 68-78
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947908
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  1. Remembering and Reflecting On Margaret Walker: 1973, 2023
  2. Iely Mohamed
  3. pp. 80-81
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947909
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  1. Abecedarian for Phillis Wheatley
  2. Latorial Faison
  3. p. 82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947910
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  1. Tanka for Phillis, and: Dialect Duplex
  2. Angel C. Dye
  3. pp. 83-84
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947911
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  1. Litany for Ms. Lucille
  2. Lauren K. Alleyne
  3. p. 85
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947912
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  1. A Mother Tries to Write
  2. RaShell R. Smith-Spears
  3. p. 86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947913
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  1. Leave-Taking
  2. Abhijit Sarmah
  3. p. 87
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947914
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  1. The Best Deal of a Lifetime
  2. Barbara Brewster Lewis
  3. pp. 88-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947915
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  1. Tracing the Tradition of the “Wheatley Poem”: 1773, 1973, 2023, and Beyond
  2. Laura Vrana
  3. pp. 90-105
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947916
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  1. Phillis Wheatley: From Black Girlhood to Ancestral Intermediary
  2. Shanna L. Smith
  3. pp. 106-112
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947917
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  1. Jubilee As A Transformative Text: How Margaret Walker’s Landmark Novel Paved the Way for Other Black Women Novelists to Write Biographical Fiction
  2. Piper Huguley
  3. pp. 113-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947918
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  1. Did Anyone Fight For Phillis?
  2. Priscilla Hancock Cooper
  3. pp. 117-119
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947919
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  1. The Original Festival Through My Lens
  2. Roy Lewis
  3. pp. 120-133
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947920
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  1. Our People: A conversation between Jesmyn Ward and Charlayne Hunter-Gault
  2. Danielle Littlefield, Jesmyn Ward, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
  3. pp. 135-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947921
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  1. A Blood Moon on Another Nameless Night, and: How American Are You?
  2. Dana Tenille Weekes
  3. pp. 144-145
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947922
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  1. I’m Going Down to Jackson
  2. Ming Joi Washington
  3. pp. 146-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947923
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  1. Critical Race Theory, and: Mississippi, for You
  2. Lor Clincy
  3. pp. 148-150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947924
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  1. On Resistance to Plantation Power
  2. Latrice Johnson
  3. pp. 151-162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947925
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  1. “A Splendid Missionary for the Race”: James Weldon Johnson, Creative Writing, And Race Work At Fisk University, 1931–1938
  2. Magana J. Kabugi
  3. pp. 163-175
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947926
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  1. Black Radio at HBCUs: Engaging and Sustaining Communities
  2. Dorothy Bland, Marquita Smith, Jocelyn Robinson, Eiman Elsawy, Delila Nakaidinae
  3. pp. 176-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947927
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  1. “You Will Be Moved”: Exploring Black Liberation Theology in the Work of Margaret Walker Alexander and Prince
  2. C Liegh McInnis
  3. pp. 193-201
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947928
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  1. The Exhibitor’s Alley: A Garden Where Seeds Planted Generations Ago Blossomed
  2. LaWanda Dickens
  3. pp. 202-204
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947929
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  1. Energy, Inspiration, and My Love For Writing
  2. Alexia Anthony
  3. p. 205
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947930
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  1. On Seeing Them/Us
  2. Ebony Lumumba
  3. pp. 207-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947931
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  1. Our Mothers’ Gardens: A conversation between Alice Walker and Ebony Lumumba
  2. Alice Walker, Ebony Lumumba
  3. pp. 212-226
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947932
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  1. For Margaret Walker (1915–1998)
  2. Paula J. Giddings
  3. pp. 228-229
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947933
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  1. Love and Happiness
  2. Priscilla Hancock Cooper
  3. p. 230
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947934
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  1. When I Cut My Hair
  2. Madison “Mocha” Hunter
  3. pp. 231-232
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947935
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  1. We’ve Been Here
  2. Janeth R. Jackson
  3. p. 233
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947936
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  1. “I Would Like To Become A Wandering Inspiration”—Alice Walker
  2. Benin Lemus
  3. pp. 234-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947937
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  1. My People
  2. C Liegh McInnis
  3. pp. 236-237
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947938
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  1. Butt of The Joke: Negotiating My Hips
  2. Victoria Washington
  3. pp. 238-242
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947939
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  1. Stitching Myself Together: Sojourner Truth and Making a Self
  2. Tikenya Foster-Singletary
  3. pp. 243-249
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947940
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  1. Me, My Writing, And The South
  2. Kaitlyn Taylor
  3. pp. 250-255
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947941
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  1. A Southern Song for My People: Seeing Self in the Works of Jesmyn Ward
  2. Kemeshia Randle Swanson
  3. pp. 256-260
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947942
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  1. The Sister in Black Raps the Hardest
  2. RaShell R. Smith-Spears
  3. pp. 261-263
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947943
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 264-273
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2024.a947944
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