Lavelle Porter

Black or Gay: Meditations on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied at 30

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter #TonguesUntied30, art, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online forum to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking film, Tongues Untied. “Priorities. That’s

Digital Du Bois

May 13, 2019April 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter Activism, art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Paris, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

The publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America gives new meaning to Du Bois’s famous sentence from

The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler

January 22, 2019January 29, 2019 Lavelle Porter Black women, literature, Racial Violence

When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful

The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Representation of Black Higher Education

August 29, 2018September 2, 2018 Lavelle Porter

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing our recent online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois in recognition of the anniversary of his passing on

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