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Nov 19, 1990 · Interview with notable African-American poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis. Frank is mentioned in Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father," as a drinking...
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Rice & Roses rediscovers Frank Marshall Davis who achieved fame and some notoriety in the 1930s and 40s as one of the foremost Black practitioners of social realism in poetry. He was also a...
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Jul 18, 2012 · The Black hand under Obama's right armpit doesn't match Ann Dunham's right arm. The size and color is wrong for a white female, and the hand is positioned closer to camera than Ann's arm. The hand...
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Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist, poet, political and labor movement activist, and businessman. Davis began his career writing for African American newspapers in Chicago.
The speaker in his “ Frank Marshall Davis: Writer ” declared: I was a weaver of jagged words. A warbler of garbled tunes. A singer of savage songs.
Frank Marshall Davis: I first began writing poetry while a student at Kansas State College [now University] around 1925, and I was influenced by a magazine called Others which featured the new revolutionary style called free verse. Sonnets and, in fact, all rhyme held little of interest for me.
Oct 10, 2007 · Frank Marshall Davis rose to prominence as a poet and journalist during the Depression and the Second World War.
