Today on the CHMA Daily News:
- Two new COVID cases in Moncton region,
- New Brunswick ministers to meet First Nations Chiefs,
- Locking down the Campbellton Hospital,
- Higgs abandons bill to expand powers,
- and an interview with Mount A professor Erin Steuter about media concentration, in light of a Green party motion to end it.
Today’s poetry and music selection for the CHMA Daily News:
Poem: “truth” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most highly regarded American poets of the 20th century, she was the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize and was the first Black woman to hold the position of poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Through her work, she was known to be able to bring together poets of her generation from the 1940s and the Black militant writers of the late 1960s. She was also passionate about racial injustice and equality, and worked through her poems to provide perspective into life as a Black person. Many of Brooks’ poetry and novels narrate the life of young Black people and the prejudice and injustice they face daily. Our poem today is slightly more general, discussing the concept of truth. In the poem titled “truth”, Gwendolyn Brooks uses metaphors and personification to describe truth. She bring across the idea that people fear truth and are ultimately more comfortable living without it—in the shade of ignorance. Naming truth ‘the sun’, implies that it is as inevitable as the sun rising each morning and that we cannot escape it.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54810/truth-56d2359ad24ba
Music: Dream by Clairmont the Second
Clairmont the Second is a Toronto based hip hop/rap artist.
DREAM, by Clairmont The Second
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