The Negritude Black Poets Society Project

As part of the 2020 Black History Month celebrations, The Negritude (Black Poets) Project seeks to perform NLP on poetry from 33 extraordinary Black Poets including: - Maya Angelou - Langston Hughes - Gwendolyn Brooks - Amiri Baraka - etc.

This project provides:

  • A dataset of the Poets's works on poetryfoundation.org.
  • Topic Modelling on the data
  • Sentiment Analysis of the data

Topic Modelling follows code from Machine Learning Plus - https://www.machinelearningplus.com/nlp/topic-modeling-gensim-python/