Archive - History of Black Writing Blog
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The HBW Blog published regularly for ten years from 2011-2021 at the URL https://projecthbw.ku.edu. During that time, it served as a major forum for the exchange of information and ideas, as well as a robust network for scholars, teachers, and students from different disciplines around the world.
Guest contributors include leading scholars and writers, but most of the posts were conceived of, researched, and written by HBW's staff of undergraduate and graduate students. Its content consists of feature editorials, book reviews, memorials, and coverage of HBW programming. Altogether, 95 writers contributed more than 750 posts.
The HBW Blog Archive is searchable by topic, month and year, and contributor name.
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| In Memoriam: Yvonne Brown The Project on the History of Black Writing mourns the passing of author and educator Yvonne Brown who passed away recently due to COVID-19... | |
| New Hurston Studies and Beyond The third installment of a three-part series recapping the events of the Project on the History of Black Writing’s 2021 NEH Summer Institute, Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present, and Future... | |
| The “Other Hurston”- Broadening Communal and Digital Spaces Part two of our three-part series recapping the events of The Project on the History of Black Writing’s NEH Summer Institute “Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present, and Future”... | |
| The Project on the History of Black Writing Mourns Melvin Van Peebles Melvin Van Peebles passed away Sept. 21, 2021, at the age of 89, but his legacy lives on in the Project on the History of Black Writing database.Like many before him, Van Peebles discovered that his dreams and goals for life seemed impossible to realize in the US. It was the 1950s, and he wanted to become a Hollywood director... | |
| Hurston’s Canon: Into the Mysteries of Zora Neale Hurston The first installment of a three-part series recapping the events of The Project on the History of Black Writing’s NEH Summer Institute “Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present, and Future”... | |
| The Black Book Interactive Project Project Manager, Jade Harrison wrote an update on the work The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) has done this past year... | |
| An interview with DeAsia Paige, author of The College Diaries Pt. 2 In Part II DeAsia Paige and Shawna Shipley-Gates hold a conversation on the impact Black feminism has had on each of their lives and its continued use their everyday experiences. Paige also discusses her current work and plans for the future. .. | |
| An interview with DeAsia Paige, author of The College Diaries Pt. 1 The College Diaries: How a Budding Black Feminist Found Her Voice, by HBW alum DeAsia Paige was released in 2020. When Shipley-Gates published the review, during Women’s History Month, she and Paige began an important conversation. The Project on the History of Black Writing hopes that sharing that conversation can help shed light on the culture that too many young women encounter when they enter college... | |
| “Lest We Forget”: The Centennial of the Tulsa Riots May 31, 1921 – May 31, 2021 My relationship with Tulsa’s Greenwood Community massacre came through my grandmother as part of a package of stories and reminiscences from growing up with family members... | |
| Figures of History: Louise Meriweather Since the beginning of her career, Louise Meriwether demonstrated that writers have a responsibility to something outside of themselves and their writing. .. |