The Jamaican American poet June Jordan (born 1936) explored multicultural and multiracial reality, feminism, and Third World activism in her many poems. She was also politically active in revolutionar...
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Jordan was born on July 9, 1936 in Harlem, the only child of immigrants from the British West Indies. When she was five, the family moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, where she grew up ...
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June Jordan's is an extraordinarily powerful voice. Power as a central theme in Jordan's work is accentuated by her speaking voice, which is forthright, resolute, searing, at times explosive and frigh...
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