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Alabama’s First Black Poet Laureate Makes Words Her Weapons in the Fight for Social Change

the pen is mightier

Also her state’s youngest poet laureate, Ashley Michelle Jones has been making sense of the world through poetry since she was 7 years old.

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Nathan Watson for the Bama Buzz

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