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African Diaspora

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Depths of Story: Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White

  • Keisha Bush
  • April 23, 2021
The inherited wounds cut so deep one wonders if they can ever be fully healed.
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Black Motherhood as Literary Creation: Talking with Kaitlyn Greenidge

  • Liz Button
  • April 12, 2021
Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu

  • Donna Hemans
  • January 13, 2021
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins

  • Donna Hemans
  • August 3, 2020
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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Both Scholarly and Poetic: A Conversation with Xandria Phillips

  • Lucy Hayes
  • April 20, 2020
Xandria Phillips discusses their debut full-length collection, HULL.
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Afrofuturist Triptych for My Mother

  • Delali Ayivor
  • November 19, 2019
This is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
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A Sense of God: She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

  • Whitney Beber
  • October 31, 2018
Perhaps one of the most beautiful things Moore does is to give voice to those who would not or did not have a voice.
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

  • Laura Creste
  • March 27, 2017
To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
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Putting Home into Words

  • Theodora Messalas
  • July 15, 2016
It would have been almost impossible for me to resist Brazil forever. Given my love for black people and fascination with our stories, Brazil’s paramount importance in the historical trans-Atlantic…
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A Postcard from History

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 23, 2015
Jessica B. Harris writes about her collection of historic postcards and the unique slice-of-life perspective offered by the 19th century postcard form. Harris has cultivated her postcard collection for decades…
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