Amidst this charged atmosphere, few voices rang with as much passion, defiance, and revolutionary energy as that of Josh ...

It’s YOUR decision. Very few can do what they like, completely unrestricted. Every year we celebrate Passover to remind us of our freedom — freedom from the Egyptians and their endlessly torturing ...

Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...

Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Julia Schroers, a 14-year-old student from Guilford, CT. You ...

Editor’s note: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, the 2020-2023 poet laureate of San Antonio, delivered her poem “Freedom Mindset” at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Juneteenth Celebration on Thursday ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

…and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord will pass over the entrance, and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to smite [you] -Exodus 12:23 Step ...

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Poetry is my freedom song and I celebrate it,” declares Rajathi Samsudeen, popularly known by her pen name Salma, who wrote ...