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Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole collaborate on an ekphrastic project exploring how Cole’s paired images intersect with the works of artists ranging from Sontag to Singh. Source: Who’s Got the Address? – Guernica
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About the #BlackPantherSyllabus Best known for his research into television content and cultivation theory, George Gerbner (1972) said that “representation in the fictional world signifies social existence; absence means symbolic annihilation” (p. 44). Historically, the Black experience has been absent, underrepresented, or misrepresented. Intersections within the identity have suffered with additional pressures, promoting a continued…
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Which books have been important in your life? And how did you, the son of a peasant, get to write one in the Kenya of the ’60s? While growing up, we had no books in Gĩkũyũ, my mother tongue. The Bible’s Old Testament became my book of stories. In high school, when I saw a…
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When Kit de Waal was growing up in 1970s Birmingham, no one like her – poor, black and Irish – wrote books. Forty years on, the author asks, what has changed? Source: Kit de Waal: ‘Make room for working class writers’ | Books | The Guardian
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I be holding beauty when I glance upon them theoretically shaping the future into an afro centric sharpness that shook the white power structure into confronting black consciousness organized and mandated to dismiss that old time religion that said everything in its place especially the black…
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Ejiọfọr Ugwu lives and writes in Nsukka, Nigeria. His poetry chapbook The Book of God was selected by African Poetry Source: Poetry and the Fullness of Things: A Dialogue With Ejiofor Ugwu – Africa in Dialogue
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Monolithic. Self-describes as “the” meaning ultimate, definitive. “The” personifies death. “The” woos she saying she has a stake and she does; runs the businesses, wears the uniforms, shoots the guns, terrorizes those “the” proclaims as enemies. She personifies death. “The” and she copulate violently. The seed is born dangerously deranged. No cheerios for the cherub…
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Freestyle #1, 2018 Stymied by the weather words coalesce and collect like dust, like soil. I am an archaeologist unearthing her hidden story. A grain of sand, a paragraph is all that history provides. To the victor belongs the spoils I guess…
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Cover designer Alexander von Ness explains the value of a book cover redesign and walks through several cover redesigns and their goals. Source: Book Cover Redesign as Marketing Tool | Jane Friedman
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When I was a teenager (18/19), I didn’t know anything (relatively speaking) about the liberation struggle but I did know a lil about black feminism and the reason for that was because of the work of women such as Barbara Smith and books such as Homegirls – a Black Feminist Anthology. A circle is an…
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