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Friday, October 10, 2025

The Literary Navigator Device

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A brief take on the Literary Navigator, a digital platform offering personalized recommendations across Black literature—connecting novels, ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Blogging about Poetry in September 2025

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[Related content: Blogging about Poetry ] • September 29: Anthologizing Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks • September 17: Anthologizing L...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Anthologizing Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks

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Across the twentieth century, few poems by African American writers have been anthologized as frequently as Margaret Walker’s “For My Peopl...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Sheree Renée Thomas and Suyi Davies Okungbowa at the New York Black and African Literature Festival

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We somehow managed to pull off an unlikely, yet long overdue, conversation between an African American author who novelized a comic book abo...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Notes on the New York Black and African Literature Festival

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On September 7, I participated in a panel for The New York Black and African Literature Festival (Sept. 5 - 7) in New York City. The festiva...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Anthologizing Langston Hughes

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Anthologies play a major role in shaping how we understand literature, especially when it comes to Black writers. Editors decide which work...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

How book recommendations at a barbershop led to an online network to find Black literature

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From STL PR  Inspired by barbershop chats and a brotherly contest over hip-hop facts, the Black Lit Network is a digital resource designed t...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston’s Short Stories of Love and Betrayal

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A brief take on how Zora Neale Hurston’s short stories use infidelity and community gossip to transform private conflicts into public specta...