Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks
In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new
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black intellectual history
#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience
With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were
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W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History
In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,
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Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut
In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron
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The Illusion of Progress in the Story of American Democracy
The word progress is central to contemporary political rhetoric. Self-described progressives work toward what they see as positive change. Meanwhile, a
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