Class 1:
Gwendolyn Brooks, “the mother”; “kitchenette building”’ “a song in the front yard”; “We Real Cool”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks#tab-poems
Margaret Walker , “For My People”; “Sorrow Home”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/margaret-walker
Class 2:
James Baldwin,; James Baldwin. “A Letter to My Nephew” http://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/