Literature - AAIHS

Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner

In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

Lorraine Hansberry Speaking to an Audience, 1959 or

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”