Larry Neal Is the Forgotten Founding Father of the Black Arts Movement

A conversation celebrating the release of Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic introduces the prolific writer and essayist to a new generation
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This is from James Weldon Johnson who wrote it in 1912 in Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, then again in God’s Trombones, then was a popular Black play, then a Nas line, y’all please stop banning black books

post a pic YOU took. No description.

I just spoke to Mr. Terry. He’s facing challenges around the farm. It’s heartbreaking because he and his family are receiving hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, yet his truck is broken and he needs hay for his farm. If you can, please consider a donation:

you would think Marjorie Perloff was a beloved elder and the fountain of kindness and support to poets and not a racist who defended KG's Michael Brown performance. Same as it ever was in US poetry.

I don't like to do this stuff but it is totally misleading to suggest that Fergie has bankrolled the #StopCopCity protest. As I stated in emails to the writer he also has not paid for any demonstrations we as Community Movement Builders Builders did. But she refuses to correct the article.

Movement elder, Black Panther and Black Liberation Army veteran, and former political prisoner, Dhoruba Bin Wahad is in need of some financial support to help him recover from recent health issues. PLEASE spare some change and drop it in the bucket.
gofundme.com/f/support-dhor…

This is a beautiful example of how culture is past down in our community (in ways that many other people won't respect because there is little to no written record)

There is no other way to measure an idea's usefulness except in the crucible of real life...

Baraka on academia

Some news: Thrilled to share on the last, leap year day of Black History Month that I sold my next book THE OVERSEER CLASS: REPRESENTATION AS REPRESSION to Amistad Books HarperCollins. C u in 2025 w stories of marginalized ppl who amass power by cracking the skulls of their own!

Saying the service member who self immolated did so as a result of “mental illness” is a part of a much larger and ongoing plan…

Part 1 | Part 2

I have A LOT to say about how attacks on librarians and teachers are a sign of dystopic collapse…. 🫠

My name is Denitia and I’m a Black Country artist ✨This is the title track from my album “Highways”

I just signed this letter to PEN America
demanding they release an official statement about the 225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars and novelists killed in Gaza

If you’re a writer you can sign it here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Audre Lorde, NY State Poet 1991: 'I accept this award in the name of the disenfranchised, silent people of this state. For the poets who write on scraps of newspaper in homeless shelters, in prisons, in mental wards, on squalid reservations & after grueling hours of work.' (1/2)

The attorney General of Indiana has created a snitch form to report schools that support LGBTQ students or have books that contain Black history or LGBTQ people.

[We wouldn't want anyone to submit false reports that would be bad ]- also no goatse pics since they have a file

The pub date for #Blacksound is moved up to March 5, which means that TODAY starts its official PRESALE! Buy directly from the University of California Press website & receive 30% off using code UCPSAVE30!

Feel free to request for your local library. PLEASE share widely 🙏🏿💜

ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

Anyway, was reading old Sebald interviews and this part about mental and physical pain is extraordinary

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth , some clips of cuttin' up and carrying on that live in my head rent free.

Artists off of each other onstage, truly enjoying the moment, giving themselves over to the performance... we don't see it enough anymore. Bring it back!