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PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 3 -- University of Pittsburgh issued the following news release:
Bringing issues of race and social injustice to the fore, three founding members of the Black Poets Speak Out campaign will host a series of community readings and workshops in Pittsburgh Nov. 9-10. The University of Pittsburgh's Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater will cosponsor these events.
The Black Poets Speak Out campaign is an ongoing, multiphase project consisting of African American artists using poetry to protest acts of police misconduct. It began as a hashtag video campaign on a Tumblr site. The campaign was initiated in response to the police-involved shooting death of Ferguson, Mo., resident Michael Brown and nationwide protests that followed. Since its inception in 2014, poets from around the world have contributed videos of their work and curated Black Poets Speak Out events across the country.
The featured poets are Jericho Brown, an associate professor at Emory University; Mahogany L....