On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy
Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the
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Race
The Racial Geography of Universities
What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of
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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors
“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of
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Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian
In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s
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Untangling Madam C.J. Walker’s Story
*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As
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