“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.”
View MoreTag: African American Literature
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.
View More
The Black novelist history forgot | The Washington Post
Everything changed for Himes with the publication of “If He Hollers Let Him Go” in 1945.
View More
Why Black Panther’s Sister in ‘Infinity War’ is a Big Deal | Inverse
The Marvel Cinematic Universe will have its biggest on-screen gathering yet in Avengers: Infinity War, but the party is only getting bigger.
View More
Ava DuVernay Is Developing Octavia Butler’s ‘Dawn’ Into a Television Series | OkayAfrica
With HBOs recent announcement of the controversial upcoming drama, Confederate, and Will Packer‘s upcoming Amazon series, Black America, there’s no doubt that the genre of speculative fiction is experiencing a major resurgence.
View More
Comic Books, in Black and White | The New York Times
The comic, developed by the writer Kwanza Osajyefo and the designer Tim Smith 3 after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, was designed to tell a story that reflected their lives and helped fill a void, they said.
View More
The Butler Effect: How Octavia Butler Changed My Life | OkayAfrice
After Wild Seed, I devoured every Octavia E. Butler book our library had – perhaps why it didn’t strongly register that so few of the books I read for school were about black people.
View More
Barry Jenkins Sets James Baldwin Adaptation ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ As First Post-‘Moonlight’ Feature | Indie Wire
The very busy filmmaker has finally announced his first film project after his historic Oscar win.
View More
James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Toward the FBI and Others Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Atlanta Black Star
One of the many paradoxes of American society is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become both destroyer and archivists of 20th-century American radicalism.
View More
What I Learned About Love from Rereading ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ – PBS
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Though the book is currently hailed as one of the most important in American literature, its initial reception wasn’t completely rosy.
View More