The Continuities of Beatriz Nascimento’s Black Radical Thought
This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. It is not a stretch to
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Poetry
The Black Poet’s Journey Through the Iron Curtain
In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano
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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways
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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry
“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb Those
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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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