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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Naomi Long Madgett died (4/11/2020)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 22:20:09 +1300
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Born 1923. Mentored by Langston Hughes. An English teacher who became a 
poet. Taught the first black literacy course in the Detroit public 
school system. (Wiki) (I'd like to know more about that.)
Named Detroit Poet Laureate, 2001.
Best remembered as "godmother of African-American poetry", for founding 
the Lotus Press (1972).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Long_Madgett
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/naomi-long-madgett-41