June Jordan

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activist civil rights activist essayist feminist person poet professor

June Jordan was an influential African American poet, essayist, and activist whose work powerfully addressed race, gender, social justice, and Black liberation.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	activist → civil rights activist → essayist → feminist → person → poet → professor →
causeOfDeath	breast cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1936-07-09 →
dateOfDeath	2002-06-14 →
educatedAt	Barnard College →
employer	City College of New York → State University of New York at Stony Brook → University of California, Berkeley →
ethnicGroup	African American →
familyName	Jordan →
fieldOfWork	Black liberation → anti-racism → essay → feminism → human rights → poetry → social justice →
founded	Poetry for the People program at University of California, Berkeley →
genre	autobiographical writing → children's literature → lyric poetry → political poetry →
givenName	June →
hasHonor	Guggenheim Fellowship → National Association of Black Journalists Award → PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award →
influenced	contemporary Black feminist writers → spoken word poets →
influencedBy	Langston Hughes → W. E. B. Du Bois →
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned	English →
movement	Black Arts Movement → Black feminism → LGBT rights movement → womanism →
notableWork	Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of America → Dry Victories → Fannie Lou Hamer → Haruko/Love Poems → His Own Where → Kissing God Goodbye: Poems, 1991–1997 → Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems → On Call → Soldier: A Poet's Childhood → Some Changes → Technical Difficulties → Things That I Do in the Dark → Who Look at Me →
occupation	children's writer → essayist → journalist → playwright → poet → teacher →
placeOfBirth	Harlem, New York City, New York, United States →
placeOfDeath	Berkeley, California, United States →
religion	Christianity →
residence	Berkeley, California, United States → Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States →
sexOrGender	female →
sexualOrientation	bisexual →
wroteAbout	Black liberation → Palestinian liberation → class → gender → imperialism → race → sexuality → urban life →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Black Arts Movement →	notableFigure