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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.
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| Four lesser known speeches by Dr. King Today we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who was a civil rights leader and minister. Dr. King ’s work to eliminate racial segregation was abruptly ended when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Although his legacy is often remembered with his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, here are four of Dr. King’s lesser known speeches to listen to commemorate his legacy: .. | |
| The Black Album: 15th Anniversary The Black Album is Jay-Z’s best solo work. Some of this has to do with the time when it came out... | |
| A NATION OF ANGER When a writer uses the findings of the social sciences regarding anger to produce an explanatory narrative, the writer’s good intentions may provoke anger and a vision of despair... | |
| The Great American Read: America’s Best-Loved Literature Centers Whiteness, Not Diversity On October 23rd, 2018, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) announced the culmination of their Great American Read project, a survey of America’s 100 “best-loved” novels... | |
| Dear ‘Zake: A Disjointed Appreciation of Ntozake Shange Like Stacey Abrams’ campaign for governor of Georgia has inspired and mobilized most African Americans, so too, the “early” Ntozake Shange of the 1970’s-80’s, especially inspired and mobilized most blackwimmin... | |
| Ntozake Shange Roundtable An outpouring of love on social media followed the news of Ntozake Shange’s passing on October 27, 2018... | |
| Four Reasons to Say Yes to Voting Election day is here and I can’t help but stress the significance of voting... | |
| Seeing the Monsters Among Us I have often wondered why I like watching horror movies and reading horror fiction. I do not like violence... | |
| The Hate We Live: Angie Thomas’ Ode to Black Girl Rage Angie Thomas’ novel turned screenplay, The Hate U Give (THUG), is a tragically mimetic story that highlights a Black girl’s coming of age while navigating trauma-induced anger and growing up in two disparate communities... | |
| Viewing Cane River Monday, October 22, 2018, was a special day in the year-long celebration of three hundred years of history in New Orleans, because we had the privilege of seeing a remarkable instance of black film in the history of cinema in the United States of America... |