How Jaki Shelton Green uses poetry to memorialize and remember history

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How Jaki Shelton Green uses poetry to memorialize and remember history

By Leoneda Inge

Published January 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM EST

North Carolina Poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green visits Due South to share a poem she recently wrote in honor of a friend, as well as to discuss how she uses writing prompts to preserve personal and cultural history.

Guest

Jaki Shelton Green, NC poet laureate

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 瓜神app's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 瓜神app as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital 瓜神app Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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