Appreciation …

…The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

He also became friends with a white classmate who, with his brother, would later invent the airplane – Orville Wright.

Their friendship led to business as the Wright brothers, who owned a printing press, were the first to print Dunbar’s writings, including the newspaper Dunbar started and edited, the Dayton Tattler, the first Black newspaper in that city.