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I Need to Know
from 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History
2
by Latorial Faison (2008)
I need to know
My original name
I need to know
Without any shame
I need to know
About African slave castles
I need to know
About White slave masters
I need to know
About the slave trade
I need to know
How America was made
I need to know
About the Middle Passage
I need to know
About lynching and lashes
I need to know
My father, my mother
I need to know
My sister, my brother
I need to know
About the Amistaad
I need to know
That Africans had heart
I need to know
About the dirty south
I need to know
About the plantation house
I need to know
About Brother Nat Turner
I need to know
About Sister Sojourner
I need to know
About the laws of Jim Crow
I need to know
About a minstrel show
I need to know
About emancipation
I need to know
About segregation
I need to know
About Madame C. J. Walker
I need to know
About Justice Thurgood Marshall
I need to know
About the ideas of Malcolm X
I need to know
What Dr. King’s dream meant
I need to know
About my family tree
I need to know
About my history
I need to know
The color of my skin
I need to know
Of the truth within
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Posted: February 26, 2013
Nancy Conrad
Submitted by: Latorial Faison
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