A crowdsourced poem inspired by Margaret Walker Alexander’s classic “For My People,” curated by 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and read alongside fellow members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
PBS American Portrait invites America to participate in a national conversation about what it really means to be an American today. To answer this question, PBS and its partners collected thousands of photos, videos and text submissions from across America to capture the state and spirit of our nation.
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