– KU Ph.D. student Amanda M. Sladek considers Toussaint L’Ouverture and the problematic “slave narrative” genre for the HBW Emerging Scholars series. – Jerry W. Ward, Jr. remembered his former classmate Anne Moody, author of the memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi. – HBW recapped the kick-off of the Black Literary Suite: Black Writers with a Kansas Connection. – Thabiti Lewis considered Sam Greenlee’s novel […]
– Jerry W. Ward, Jr. told us how Shakespeare lives on in FOX’s new show Empire. – We previewed the upcoming HBW event Black Literary Suite: Black Writers with a Kansas Connection, kicking off on Wednesday, February 25, from 3 – 4:30 p.m., on the fourth floor of Watson Library. – NPR Code Switch blogger and Tufts University professor of history Peniel E. Joseph put […]
– HBW Staff Members gave recommendations on black-authored books to read for the National African American Read-In. – Kristin Joi Coffey gave more detail about HBW’s upcoming funded NEH Summer Seminar, Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement. (Apply here!) – The Equal Justice Initiative released Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, documenting the approximately 4000 lynchings that took place in 12 […]
– Toni Morrison released a new short story, “Sweetness,” through The New Yorker. – Sunday, February 1 was Langston Hughes’s 113th birthday. Google celebrated with this charming video (embedded below):