For more than a decade and a half now, I've been working on arts and educational projects with black boys and collegiate black men...

I 've been covering poetry (and rap lyrics) in classes with the collegiate black men I work with for more than a decade and a half now. ...

The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead was published in 1999 and marked the debut of one of our most talented literary artists. This in...

Over the last several years, I've been talking and covering comics written by African American writers. Here's a roundup of twenty t...

The Big Smoke (2013) by Adrian Matejka consists of persona poems focusing on the first black heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. ...

A Right to Be Hostile (2003) by Aaron McGruder collects the comic strips from the writer/artist up to that point. The strip, featuring Huey...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness  by Michelle Alexander was first published, as a hardcover, in 2010, and t...

Since 2004, I've taught a course for first-year collegiate black men and various upper-level African American courses that attracted s...