The Black Book Interactive Project, the brainchild of HBW, has received a Digital Extension Grant of $150,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to expand the project and make more Black novels digitally available. Please read more about the announcement here and here. 

More than 1800 students had an opportunity to visit with award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, whose book Create Dangerously:The Immigrant Author at Work is the 2018 KU Common Book Selection. Above, Danticat is featured in a session at the Spencer Museum in front of the imposing image of Ulrick Jean-Pierre's Queen Anacoana. The work of Jean-Pierre will remain on exhibit throughJanuary 7, 2019. The artist will return to speak about his oeuvre at] KU's "Unexpected Caribbean Symposium," October 18-20: "Unexpected Caribbean Symposium," October 18-20, 2018.

Vincent Omni, Morgan Mccomb, and Mona Ahmed presenting at the 78th CLA Conference Chicago, 2018. 

Dr. Hoyt Long, Simone Oliver, Jennifer Chukwu, Athena Kern: University of Chicago partners on the Black Book Interactive Project.

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