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Zinzi Clemmons: ‘It’s Time For Women of Color…to Divest From Lena Dunham’ | Jezebel

November 21, 2017November 21, 2017African American Literature, African American Lives ...

Writer Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose, has announced that she will no longer be writing for Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s online feminist weekly newsletter Lenny Letter because, she says, of Dunham and her friends’ racism which was “well-known” prior to their fame. “She cannot have our words if she cannot respect us,” she writes.

‘We Need to Normalize the Black Family Again:’ Author Hopes to Reinforce Traditional Families with New Children’s Book | Atlanta Black Star

November 15, 2017December 25, 2019African American Families, African American Literature ...

While children’s books are getting more diverse over the years, the truth is they’re still disproportionately white.

How Amanda Gorman Became the Nation’s First Youth Poet Laureate | The New York Times

November 14, 2017African American Art, African American Literature ...

Inspired by a speech that Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize laureate, gave in 2013, Ms. Gorman became a youth delegate for the United Nations at the age of 16.

Sitting down with poet Nikki Giovanni for a ‘A Good Cry’ | Chicago Tribune

November 2, 2017November 2, 2017African American Culture, African American Literature ...

When she writes about her godmother and grandparents, she recalls the overlooked sacrifices the elders made to smooth the path for her.

Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ | The Guardian

November 1, 2017November 1, 2017African American Families, African American Literature ...

Even before her son was born, Jesmyn Ward was preoccupied with one thing – how she would prepare him for survival

The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez | Black Perspectives, AAIHS

November 1, 2017November 1, 2017African American Literature, Criminal Justice ...

In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ Being Adapted as Series for Hulu | Atlanta Black Star

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017African American Film, African American Literature ...

The monumental novel, “Invisible Man,” is getting the series treatment on Hulu. Ralph Ellison’s 1952 book is in the early stages of development, according to Variety.

Novelist Jesmyn Ward ‘Overjoyed’ by MacArthur Win | Atlanta Black Star

October 20, 2017African American Literature, African American News ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An African-American novelist praised for her raw and powerful depictions of poor African-Americans confronting racial and economic inequalities in the rural South said Wednesday that winning a MacArthur fellowship gives her time and freedom.

The Soul of Black Comics: An Interview with John Jennings | Black Perspectives

October 16, 2017African American Art, African American Illustrator ...

Jennings is a scholar and artist whose artistic work is deeply influenced by the African American cultural experience and explores intersectional narratives linked to identity.

Angela Davis: An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism | Verso

October 13, 2017October 14, 2017African American History, African American Literature ...

“The concept associated with Black Marxism that I find most productive and most potentially transformative is the concept of racial capitalism…. Global capitalism cannot be adequately comprehended if the racial dimension of capitalism is ignored.”