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Written by Alan KingAugust 7, 2011August 12, 2011

Averse to Illiteracy: Poets Come Out Against DC’s Ailing Public School Libraries

Walking past DC’s Watts Park in Northeast, the people stopped in their tracks when they heard  Mister Señor Love Daddy, from Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, speaking. The fictitious disc jockey was invoked through a poem by Fresno, Texas-poet Jonathan Moody. Through Derrick Weston Brown’s reading of the poem, Love Daddy held court for […]

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