This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents a fluid tradition that includes ...

This was the Golden Age of comic books, when Americans voraciously consumed stories about superheroes, determined detectives and thrilling romances - yet very few featured African American characters.

But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such recovery inherently challenges methods ...

Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts. The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made ...

An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection featuring a selection of films documenting the African American Experience — along with articles, digital shorts and original features exploring America’s ...

Stacker compiled a list of 100 of the best books by Black Americans, with titles spread out between centuries, genres, subject matter, and themes. To create the list, we referred to major Black ...

Though other guides for Black travelers existed, none were as long as the Green Book. For many African Americans, parts of Green Book-style planning and preparation endure to this day.

Professor Chad Williams and Faith Smith will release their books, The Wounded World and Strolling in the Ruins, respectively in April 2023. Prof. Faith Smith been named a W. E. B. Du Bois Research ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Michael Twitty won the James Beard Foundation’s 2018 Book of the Year award for his book on African-American Southern food. The James Beard Foundation announced last week that ...