By Kenton Rambsy Emily Duru, a PhD student in English at Howard University, used Tableau Public to create a pair of visualizations that make...

Kenton Rambsy, Dana Williams, Keyanah Nurse By Kenton Rambsy  The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) launched the Intention Foundr...

By Georgene Bess Montgomery I have loved Mari Evans ever since I read her incredible poem “Who can be born Black and not sing the joy, the c...

By Laura Vrana I had the privilege of being involved in the institute as a doctoral student, when my dissertation was still in the early sta...

By Laura Vrana On the occasion of the upcoming tenth anniversary of the July 2015 NEH-funded Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement inst...

In July 2015, a group of us gathered, “Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement,” an NEH-funded Institute that sought to respond to “the r...

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