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The Project on the History of Black Writing

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of English

Please join the Project on the History of Black Writing for our 35^th Anniversary Celebration at the 2018 College Language Association Convention! Thursday, April. 5^th from 9-11pm at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza River North

Welcome to the Project on the History of Black Writing!

HBW Exclusive: One-on-One Interview with Tayari Jones

Lili Wang, Associate Professor in the Foreign Languages Department at Harbin Engineering University in China, Visiting Scholar at the University of Kansas, and Project HBW affiliate sat down with Tayari Jones to discuss her upbringing, influences, writing, and her newest novel An American Marriage. Check out the video below.

HBW Staff & Friends at the "Soul of Zora" Exhibit during the Black Love Symposium

Diverse Academic Careers Workshop with N.Y. Nathiri, Executive Director, Association for the Preservation of the Eatonville Community. The workshop for CLAS graduate students was held at the Hall Center September 15, 2017 as part of KU's Black Love Symposium. Participants, Read more »

Beijing Foreign Studies University scholars pose with artist Faith Ringgold at the 1st Annual National African American Quilt Conference.

Congratulations to our 2017 Graduates. View full image credits »

DIGIN is a collaboration between the University of Chicago and the University of Kansas. The collaboration is a precursor to the Black Book Interactive Project, an ongoing effort to digitize books by black authors and about black culture in order to make them more accessible to the public. The KU Scanning team for the Digital Inclusion Group Initiative (left to right): Dominique Waller, Connor Noteboom, and Mona Ahmed - June 2016.