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At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were few, if any black-owned or black-managed funeral homes. Survivors of deceased blacks were forced to depend on white funeral homes for embalming if they would even agree to service them.
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
Critic Amy Louise Reed called Graveyard poetry a disease, [6] while other critics called many poems unoriginal, and said that the poets were better than their poetry. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Although the majority of criticism about Graveyard poetry is negative, other critics thought differently, especially about poet Edward Young .
A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies. [2] Dirges are often slow and bear the character of funeral marches.
The Black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, [1] as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
A literary critic noted that Evans used "black idioms to communicate the authentic voice of the black community is a unique characteristic of her poetry." [21] I Am a Black Woman (1970), her best-known poetry collection, won the Black Academy of Art and Letters First Poetry Award in 1975, and includes her best-known poem, "I Am a Black Woman". [18]