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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| TODAY: Kevin Young @ KU The 2016 Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture Uninhabited : Race, Reading, and the Archives.. | |
| HBW Fall Open House this Friday Stop in this Friday between 10am – 1pm to chat with current staff members, browse our novel collection, and learn more about our great initiatives for the year!.. | |
| HBW Supports: Recognizing Today as Indigenous Peoples Day | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (9/24 – 9/30) KU welcomed Jabari Asim, author and editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, to campus as the fall keynote lecture for the Common Book program... | |
| Original Research: Dr. Candice A. Pitts In July 2015 the Project on the History of Black Writing welcomed 25 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholars to the University of Kansas... | |
| Remembering Joyce Carol Thomas (May 25, 1938 – August 13, 2016) The African-American Literature community has lost another treasure. On August 13, 2016 Joyce Carol Thomas died in Stanford, California... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (9/17 – 9/23) The [MacArthur Foundation announced its list of Fellows for 2016]. The group of 23 “geniuses” represent the best of creativity and innovation in their fields, and will receive a stipend of $625,000 over five years. Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, Poet Claudia Rankine, Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Art Historian Kellie Jones, and Sculptor [Joyce J. Scott] are among this year’s fellow.. | |
| HBW Supports: March for Standing Rock HBW supports the First Nation Student Association (FNSA) and their march in support of Standing Rock on 9/30/16 at 4pm... | |
| It’s Banned Books Week! Celebrating the Freedom to Read Here at HBW we celebrate banned and challenged books at Banned Books Week, and the right to read every day!.. | |
| An Evening with Jabari Asim [Jabari Asim], celebrated author and editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, will present the fall keynote lecture for the University of Kansas’s Common Book program at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in Budig Hall Room 130.. |