All Black Children

All Black children should know, Althea Gibson was a winner…

Bill Russell was a contender

Charles Drew was an inventor

Dr. King was in the center

Elaine Brown is a defender

Fredrick Douglass was not hindered

Grace Jones will be remembered and,

Harriet Tubman was a bender

It’s ALSO important to share, Ida B. Wells was a crime fighter…

James Edward Maceo West is an igniter

Kobe Bryant was an over-timer

Little Miss Flint is not just minor

Mae C. Jemison is a star glider

Nelson Mandela was a survivor

Octavia Butler was the writer and,

Patricia Bath removed the blinders

Quote me if you like, BUT Queen Latifah is a multitalented very extravagant Queen…

Robert Abbott would either laugh or cry at our papers and magazines

Sundiata Keita was an African prince, that fought to become a king

Tupac Shakur showed us with his actions he’d die for what he believed

Unquestionably, ALL Black children should know Usain Bolt was insanely fast…

Virgil Abloh invented swag

Wangari Maatha reclaimed the grass

X was loyal until he passed

Yusef Salaam refused to crash, and

Zora Neale Hurston would tell you herself, it’s important to know about your past…