Archive - History of Black Writing Blog
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Black Literary History Making
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.
| Blog Post/Link | Date |
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| CALL FOR SOURCES: Mississippi Renaissance Syllabus | |
| ICYMI: Late Women Trustees of the Writers Club to Be Honored Dr. Lena Jane Weathers (1930-2017), who was a lifelong resident of East St. Louis and an invaluable leader and patron of this community, will be honored along with four other late trustees of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club on Tuesday, March 21... | |
| HBW Supports: Global History of Black Girlhood Conference The Global History of Black Girlhood Conference will gather an interdisciplinary network of scholars to frame the emerging field of black girl history. The project grows out of the History of Black Girlhood Network, an informal collaboration among scholars researching the experiences of black girls from the sixteenth century to present in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. .. | |
| REMEMBERING DARK AND SPLENDID REMEMBERING DARK AND SPLENDID .. | |
| Remembering Mari Evans The HBW Family is deeply saddened by the passing of poet Mari Evans (July 16, 1923 – March 10, 2017). .. | |
| International Women's Day Here at HBW we are using Women’s History Month to look at the contributions of women of color here in Kansas and throughout the country. We will be highlighting those who have made contributions to our collective cultural knowledge, as well as those who have become “hidden figures” themselves. .. | |
| HBW Reading List: International Women’s Day Here’s our quick reading list for International Women’s Day:.. | |
| Quick History: International Women’s Day Need a quick history on International Women’s Day? .. | |
| Black American Sign Language (BASL) Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, celebrated his 208th birthday on February 12, 2017... | |
| Lincoln’s Birthday Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, celebrated his 208th birthday on February 12, 2017. He did not fail to inform everyone that he was of the party of Donald John Trump. In the first half of the 20th century, a number of Negroes and their non-Negro allies esteemed Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. They possessed fewer facts about Lincoln’s dream that the enslaved should be freed and exported in a reverse Middle Passage back to their motherlands than their African American and multi-ethnic descendants now have. Richard Wright used Lincoln’s birthday and iconic status to contextualize the behavior of Jake Jackson, the anti-hero of the novel Lawd Today! At crucial points throughout Wright’s satiric portrayal of Jackson, a radio station broadcasts platitudes about Lincoln’s greatness. .. |