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The Meaning of Black Inexpression

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. The violence is irrepressible. The names of those taken

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. In the essay,

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

In April of this year at a press conference staged in front of the National Mall, Democratic Party politicians Ed