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the problem with the passive past tense

July 10, 2018July 12, 2018 Alexis Pauline Gumbs #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, poetry, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes

The Legacy of Sandra Bland: An Interview with Poet Simone John

July 9, 2018July 12, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Black women, poetry, Sandra Bland

This post of part of our online forum on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes

Religion in the Work of Langston Hughes

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 N’Kosi Oates Harlem, poetry, religion

It was 1914 when twelve-year-old Langston Hughes went to a Black Church for the first time. It marked him for

Langston’s Salvation: A New Book on the Religious Thought of Langston Hughes

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 J. T. Roane Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, poetry, religion

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Haiti, Cultural Politics, and US Occupation

April 18, 2018April 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Haiti, imperialism, literature, poetry

Haiti’s intellectual dissidents played an instrumental role in advocating the Haitianization of Haiti–the embrace of Haitian culture, peasant life, and