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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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| ICYMI: The Last 2 Weeks in Black Writing and Culture (3/26-4/15) The works of female artists are being featured in a resurgence of “women’s only” or “group show” exhibitions across the country. Though the practice fell out of favor after the 1970’s and 1980’s, some curators are calling this reviving trend a “curatorial corrective,” while female artists bristle at the thought of a “one and done” mentality that will not shift the overall landscape of the art world. .. | |
| Women’s History Month: Keeping it Real I for one am grateful for Women’s History Month. Alter all, it comes right after Black History Month, when we get to spend a whole month honoring black people. Then we do the same for women. This is public education and it matters greatly... | |
| National Poetry Month Featured Writer: Mercedes Lucero This Is What it Means To Say “Black Hair” Originally published in Narrative Northeast In third grade, I sat at a blue metal table outside on the blacktop. An older boy at the next table over said to me, “Your hair looks greasy.” I don’t even remember his name, but I remember he was a white kid... | |
| POETRY MONTH 2016 Like Black History Month and Women’s History Month, Poetry Month sounds the alarm for annual rituals, or daily ones. Thus, April is for Remembering and forgetting. Hurting from ancient injuries and healing whenever possible. Smelling the skunk of blame and drinking palm wine of forgiveness. Tracking down the terrorists and seeking the saviors. Repeating rituals to confirm that we are motes of dust and grains of sand in an ever expanding universe of consciousness... | |
| Beauty, Brains and the B-word A widely recognized fact is the discrepancy between the number of men and women in the science fields. Women’s History Month is a good time to highlight this. This is not to suggest that we have been ignoring the problem. STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) have acknowledged this gap and are trying to fix it. However, on the whole, these efforts are still showing limited results. .. | |
| Make it Funky V: Reflections on Kendrick Lamar Recap On Thursday, March 24th, the department of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas sponsored Make it Funky V: Reflections on Kendrick Lamar. The program, held at the Lawrence Arts Center, attracted many from the KU and Lawrence community. The purpose of the Make it Funky series is to explore connections between music, black writing and black culture. .. | |
| Transnationalism, Women, Texts, and Bodies My dissertation project involves comparing experiences of international policies on women in two locations: Senegal, West Africa, and Germany. .. | |
| Women’s History Month Happy Women’s History Women’s History! It is an honor to be a woman, and to write about the experiences of women, and to have connected with so many amazing women. My first time celebrating Women’s History Month was with my Global Feminisms class at Ohio University in 2011. The Ohio University Women’s Center, under the direction of Susanne Dietzel, developed several events and programs to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of women all over the world... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (3/19-3/25) On Thursday, March 24th, Make it Funky V: Reflections on Kendrick Lamar was held at Lawrence Arts Center, sponsored by the department of African and African American Studies at KU. The purpose of The Make it Funky series is to explore connections between popular music and black writers. Sequoia Maner of the University of Texas at Austin was the keynote speaker and spoke on the influence of Kendrick Lamar’s music on African American culture. Stay tuned for our recap! .. | |
| Lifting As We Climb Revisited: The Clubwomen of the Kansas State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs On June 14, 1916, Mrs. Charles W. French of Newton, Kansas, rose from her seat during the 16th Annual Session of the Kansas State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in Parsons, Kansas, to denounce the Jim Crow laws in the host city... |