By Debbie Allen and Patricia Thrushart, Cofounders, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA PARH USA is thrilled to collaborate with the Ohio Poetry Association (OPA) and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to include poetry in the celebration of International Underground Railroad Month. The Underground Railroad was the network used through the mid-19th century by […]

By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA On June 13, 2020, the Venango County Black Lives Matter “Enough is Enough Rally” in Franklin, PA, drew what the Explore Venango online news source deemed a “large crowd” of area residents reacting to the death of George Floyd and protesting systemic racism. Like other

By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA “History repeats itself.” We’ve all heard this adage, along with Winston Churchill’s warning that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Spanish philosopher George Santayana is usually given credit for another version of this aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the