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The Love Between Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks

In 1986, African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote of her life-long friend Langston Hughes: “‘WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer.

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those

Just after Christmas, I went to see “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. I went with

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History