In his Martin Luther King Day speech, President Obama turned to James Russell Lowell's poem, "The Present Crisis," formerly recited by King himself, in order to remember the civil rights activist's legacy: "Truth forever on the scaffold / Wrong forever on the throne..." Gear up for Black History Month by browsing black heritage resources on Poets.org, including featured poets, poems, books, and more.
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