The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.
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Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine | The New York Times
Nearly 25 years ago, Nnedi Okorafor was visiting relatives in Isiekenesi, Nigeria, when she asked her grand uncle a sensitive question. What could he tell her about Nsibidi, an old and often secret symbolic script?
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[Book Review] In Praise of the Black Men and Women Who Built Detroit | The New York Times
Traditional West African storytellers, griots carry their people’s traditions from generation to generation, and are renowned for their encyclopedic knowledge, their wit and their ability to bridge the past and present.
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Online Roundtable: Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming | Black Perspectives
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Africana Religions* to host an online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld‘s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (New York University Press, 2017).
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‘The Black Writing Community Is Very Small’ | The Atlantic
The writer Ashley C. Ford and her mentor, Roxane Gay, discuss the professional advice they’ve gotten and how to cope with criticism.
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[VIDEO] When James Baldwin Met Bill Buckley | The Atlantic
(2012) “The problem in Mississippi isn’t that too few Negroes can vote, it’s that too many whites can”
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‘Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart’ Trailer: Lorraine Hansberry Docu Hits Toronto | Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival is hosting the world premiere of the first feature-length documentary on playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who penned the iconic A Raisin In The Sun.
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How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America | The Washington Post
“Consumers of these racist ideas… have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”
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Harlem to Havana: Langston Hughes Helped a Nation Connect to Its African Roots | NBC News
American poet Langston Hughes was driven by a curiosity to explore the culture of African peoples.
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Writing Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward Salvages Stories Of The Silenced | 88.5 WFDD
For writer Jesmyn Ward, Mississippi is a place she loves and hates all at once.
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