Ksmarsh·Oct 4Beyond the Single Story of Black SufferingJason Reynolds’ “Long Way Down” as a Pedagogical Allegory
Imani Kaliid·Oct 3Black Love Is the Most Radical Thing We HaveThere’s nothing like Black Love in art: Nina and Darius. Cal and Angela. Franklin and Zora. Too much greatness to call out here yet…
Kay Blair·Sep 12Pearl Tita Is Building the Literary Infrastructure Black Canadian Authors Have Been MissingAhead of BLK Book Fair — Chapter III, founder Pearl Tita talks representation, gatekeeping, survival, and why supporting Black Canadian…A response icon1A response icon1
Kai Payne·Sep 2Blacktop Wasteland and the Life You’re Supposed to Leave BehindS.A. Cosby’s Southern crime thriller asks what choice really means when the thing that can ruin you is also the thing you’re best at.
Desirée Winns·Jul 10Book Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonIt took me way too long to read this book, but I’m glad I finally did. Following a young Black woman named Janie and her three marriages to…
Jah Renee·Jun 28Black Women’s Liberation in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching GodAn interdisciplinary essay
Richard Seltzer·Jun 17What the voices had to say about Emancipation by Richard SeltzerAt the beginning of the Civil War, four slave owning states stayed in the Union rather than join the Confederacy. Delaware, Maryland…
Kemba Mark·Jun 8Love, Loss, and Personified Nature in Maya Angelou’s “The Gamut”Maya Angelou’s poem “The Gamut,” published in her 1978 collection And Still I Rise, is a tender but sorrowful meditation on love…
