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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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| 2016 Summer Reading Lists The following summer readings lists have been compiled by Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies Librarian at Northwestern University. The three lists are divided into categories African American Fiction, Books on Chicago’s Black Experience, and Black Feminist Futures. Project HBW gives a big thank you to Dr. Bethel for providing these lists... | |
| Tosin Abasi – Reinventing Modern Progressive Music Music can touch the soul, create movements, define us. Prince’s music showed us what it means to love and break through societal boundaries, and Beyonce’s latest album Lemonade empowered women all over the world. There are numerous artists who are under-recognized and who are just as influential. HBW staff member Connor Noteboom analyzes the innovative style of guitar player Tosin Abasi. .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (7/1-7/8) The Toni Morrison Society conference is coming up! .. | |
| Political Pornography A few decades ago in the Black South, it was not uncommon for black women who did domestic work to speak of “our white folks” as if they actually owned those people. Such womanist talk involved subtle, racial codes... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (6/24-6/30) Tayllor Johnson wrote a wonderful piece on Beyonce’s Lemonade. Hope Wabuke of The Root spoke with Yaa Gyasi about her debut novel, Homegoing. In the interview, Gyasi discussed her inspiration to become a writer, craft, and race... | |
| Lemonade: A Woman’s Narrative, Not a Man’s Confession When I first heard about Beyoncé’s Lemonade, social media was abuzz with gossip. All I saw were posts speculating if Jay Z cheated, or whether this was all a ruse to get more people using Tidal, a music streaming site founded by Beyoncé and Jay Z... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (6/17-6/23) “Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative in Literature, Language, and Criticism” sponsored by Howard University took place this week. Search hashtag #DHatHU on Twitter to keep up with the workshop presentations... | |
| Michelle Cliff (1946-2016): Writer, Critic, and Fighter of Racism and Homophobia Michelle Cliff was born in Kingston, Jamaica on November 2, 1946. She graduated from Wagner College in New York City in 1969 and then from Warburg Institute in London in 1974 with a PhD in the Italian Renaissance... | |
| Requiem for Human Dreams "Today there can be no doubt that Americans know the facts; and yet they remain for the most part indifferent and unmoved.”.. | |
| Juneteenth @ 150 + — In Lawrence, KS and Beyond Summer 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of the realization among the last enslaved people in America that they were now free under the terms of the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, two months after the official end of the Civil War, General Gordon Granger, commander of the occupying troops in Texas and Oklahoma, read the Declaration aloud to those gathered.. |