Reimagining the Quest for Black Freedom in the USA: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
It took me some time to understand what Hartman was creating with this book; to understand that...
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Tag: black women writers
Zora Neale Hurston to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: “You are my sister”
Unlikely friendships. They’re often the best because they’re out of the ordinary and anything out...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston: Nasty Women Writers Who Were Good Friends
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), woman writer and author of the wildly popular novel The...
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Gloria Naylor: Redirecting the Spotlight, American Woman Writer (1950-2016)
I am beyond thrilled to learn of The Gloria Naylor Archive! This extensive repository of...
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All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: A Woman Writer Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
Congratulations to Tiya Miles for winning a 2021 National Book Award in the category of Nonfiction...
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Woman Writer Saidiya Hartman
Black woman writer, author and scholar Tiya Miles is inspired by and gives credit and mention to...
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Woman Writer, Educator and Activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875 – 1955): Standing Tall in the Hall!
The crack in the bronze ceiling just got bigger with the 11-foot marble sculpture of Mary McLeod...
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Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo: Healing Hearts and Nations
“My innate impulse is healing, which is also standing up for justice, which can heal hearts and...
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Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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