Johnetta Anderson, 20, who goes by the moniker "Awthentik," stole the show with her reading at the DuSable Museum.
CPS grad's work thrills pioneering black poet
Sonia Sanchez -- the pioneering poet who arose from the '60s Black Arts Movement and was the first professor to create a college course on black women and literature in the United States -- was the headliner at the DuSable Museum of African American History. But as Black History Month wrapped up at the South Side museum's Sankofa Sista's poetry event Wednesday night, it was a Chicago Public Schools graduate, Johnetta Anderson, 20, who stole the show.