Tag: Elizabeth Alexander

  • Nation & World

    Reaffirming inauguration rituals after Capitol assault

    How the symbolic aspects of a cornerstone of American democracy evolved.

    5 minutes
    Capitol building.
  • Nation & World

    Persistence, courage take the dais

    Rapper Queen Latifah, poets Elizabeth Alexander and Rita Dove, Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, artist Kerry James Marshall, and entrepreneur Robert F. Smith were honored with this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medals.

    5 minutes
    Robert Smith and Queen Latifah
  • Nation & World

    Poetry in motion

    Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.

    12 minutes