Literature - AAIHS

Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2

For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews

Today’s post features Robert Greene II’s, senior editor of Black Perspectives, interview of Robin Brooks on her new book, Class

In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For