Libraries, Literacy, and Community Building: An Interview with Brea McQueen
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Brea McQueen, a teen librarian in Cincinnati. McQueen has worked in libraries
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Literature
Shirley Graham Du Bois and Black Liberation
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The
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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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Attack Dogs and the History of Racial Violence
In 1970 French author Romain Gary published his novel White Dog, a semi-biographical work that imaginatively recreated the author’s experiences
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The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler
When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful
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