Michele Wallace: Grace Under Fire
Michele Wallace (b.1952) is a major force in the Black feminist movement. She is also a writer,...
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Faith Ringgold’s Children’s Books: Bringing Hope and History to Life
Faith Ringgold’s children’s books arose out of her story quilts, one in particular: Tar Beach. A...
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Tiya Miles and Saidiya Hartman: Critical Fabulation – Claiming the Narrative and Overriding the Supremacist Archive
In her book All That She Carried, woman writer Tiya Miles explores the lives of three women told...
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Toni Morrison and A. J. Verdelle: For the Love of Words—The Connection Between Two Women Writers
A. J. Verdelle recently published a book called Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship...
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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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Every Month is Women’s History Month at Nasty Women Writers
For five years the Nasty Women Writer’s sister-team of Theresa and Maria Dintino has been writing...
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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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