A real treasury of griots.

I love Haki Madhubuti's tribute poem to Gwendolyn Brooks (might have been published under Don L. Lee--senior memory excuse).

As a fan of Neruda, you might also like the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo--in his later poems more overtly conscious of class and privilege. It's been a while since I've read him, but this is one of my favorites:

https://poems.com/poem/a-man-walks-by-with-a-stick-of-bread-on-his-shoulder/