Category Archives: culture
Review of D. Watkins We Speak for Ourselves
Always on the look out for writing that will get my students excited about reading I picked up a copy of journalist and social commentator extraordinaire, D. Watkins’ We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America (2019) for … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, environment, health, review, slavery, Writer
Tagged Baltimore, D. Watkins, hip hop, journalism, journalist, Lucky Dube, memoir, Nipsey Hussle, Rap, South Africa, We Speak for Ourselves
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3rd Annual Well-Read Black Girl Festival
Dear Lover of the Word, You’ll remember that a few months ago I did a review of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018), an anthology by Glory Edim, founder of Well-Read Black Girl. I’ve been a big … Continue reading
Review of Victor Lavalle’s The Changeling
I’ll admit, I approached Victor Lavalle’s The Changeling (2018) with a healthy amount of trepidation. While I love science and speculative fiction, I’m not big on horror. It’s why, although I am deeply curious about them both, I have yet to … Continue reading
2019
2019 will long be remembered by many of us, not only for the great voices that we’ve lost just this month, but also because it is a year of significant historical anniversaries and commemorations. Two that immediately come to mind are: … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, history
Tagged 1619 Project, 2019, African-American, history, news, Red summer 1919
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Review of Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
I have long been familiar with Dr. Saidiya Hartman’s brilliance; first through Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (1997) and then through Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Coast (2008). As a post-doc, I … Continue reading
Wondering: Has Peele read Butler?
Let me state up front, just so we’re clear, I loooove Octavia Butler. She seems to make her way into my consciousness at least once a day, whether it’s through what I’m reading or a podcast I’m listening to, or just … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, literature, review, slavery, Speculative Fiction, Writer
Tagged Easy Rawlins, Get Out, Jordan Peele, Octavia Butler, science fiction, the sunken place, Us, Walter Mosley, Wild Seed
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Review of The Green Book: Guide to Freedom: The Essential Travel Guide for a Segregated America
A few weeks ago I momentarily considered laying my hard-earned cash down to see Green Book in the theatres. Fortunately for me, I thought to check out reviews of the film ahead of time. The ones I paid attention to were … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, business, culture
Tagged A.G. Gaston, African-American, documentary, film, history, The Green Book, Victor Green, Yoruba Richen
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