Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer,...
Cassandra Wilson was one of the most original vocal artists in American music: a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and interpreter whose deep contralto carried Mississippi’s tonal memory into a strikingly...
“We Wear The Mask” was first published in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s collection Majors and Minors in 1895. Written...
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an editor, novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and scholar whose labor helped make the Harlem...
The Cuban Revolution was to the Caribbean of the twentieth century what the Haitian Revolution was to the nineteenth: a rupture that reshaped the region’s political imagination and reverberated throughout the...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a pioneering African American author who earned international recognition in the late nineteenth and...
In her beautiful poem, Ancestral Intelligence, CJ Spears evokes a deeper intelligence rooted in the body, in community, and in a sacred inheritance carried forward across rupture. Cultivated through kinship, survival,...
“You came to our country — you have driven us from our haunts, and disturbed us in our...
Lucien Victor Alexis Sr. was a New Orleans-born educator, scientist, military officer, entrepreneur, and civic leader whose life...
The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World War history—and as a powerful lens on the contradictions within American democracy itself....
