Holloway House and the Black Literary Underground
How do authors such as Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) and Donald Goines go from catering to white audiences with “black
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Author: Matthew Teutsch
The Taproot Remains: On the Life and Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines
On an acre of land, in South Louisiana, surrounded by sugar cane fields, Ernest J. Gaines will be laid to
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‘I’m just a kid’: Representation in Milestone Comics’ ‘Icon’
*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In the 1970s, when the
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Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation
The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend
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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Racial Uplift, and Collective Identity
On December 8, 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar met with John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Kelly Miller
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