Read Part 1: ‘I Am the Bridge’: How a poem being presented at an African cultural event in Arvada was created by 50 people from different ethnicities and cultures In the days leading up to her part in ...

BALTIMORE -- “My name is spelled C-O-U-R-Y-N, pronounced Couryn, and please. Memorize it.” Then-ninth grader Couryn Branch performed her poem before faculty members at Coppin State University, her ...

David Gaines gestures during a rehearsal for "Be Holding" at Girard College. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The parquet flooring of the Girard College basketball court, in the historic boarding school’s armory ...

Ladonna wants George to like her, so she performs a poem she wrote just for him. Ladonna wants George to like her, so she performs a poem she wrote just for him. But George doesn't like being the ...

“My name is spelled C-O-U-R-Y-N, pronounced Couryn, and please. Memorize it.” Then-ninth grader Couryn (KOUR-in) Branch performed her poem before faculty members at Coppin State University, her mother ...