Meghan Markle & Prince Harry "Get Lit" to honour Black History Month 2021
Meghan and Harry got involved in Black History Month celebrations dropping in by zoom to surprise
participants in a Get Lit poetry class and thrilling the people there.
The Get Lit organization was
founded in the US in 2006 after Diane Lane created a one-woman show about the power of
books and toured colleges, high schools, jails, and detention centers, taking New
Mexican born poet Jimmy Santiago Baca with her. After the show closed she says
that she couldn’t bear the thought of cutting off the work completely, so she
started teaching classic and spoken word poetry in high school. When the
semester ended the students wouldn’t leave, they insisted on meeting after
school. Today, the Get Lit curriculum has expanded to
over 100 schools throughout California, and is sold to schools all over the
world.
Meghan and Harry are said to have really engaged in the zoom poetry class with Meghan said to have shared some of her favorite poetry lines. The participants, in their social media posts, praised the couple for being kind and for genuinely knowing how to connect with people, adding it was the most surreal yet epic experience!
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