“Homage To Gertrude Badu,” A Poem by Terrance Hayes lithub.com/homage-to-gert… via Literary Hub

Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy lithub.com/colson-whitehe… via Literary Hub

Obama releases his summer reading list thehill.com/blogs/in-the-k…

Ta-Nehisi Coates Crashes School Board Meeting Over Removing His Book From Class thedailybeast.com/ta-nehisi-coat… via The Daily Beast

How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians – they now need to learn how to plan for safety and legally protect themselves theconversation.com/how-book-banni… via The Conversation U.S.

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought lithub.com/how-w-e-b-du-b… via Literary Hub

Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose lithub.com/jamel-brinkley… via Literary Hub

J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee lithub.com/j-vanessa-lyon… via Literary Hub

Violence Against Women: Where Fact Meets Fiction lithub.com/violence-again… via Literary Hub

Morrison Hall nybooks.com/online/2023/08… via The New York Review of Books

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Zakiya Dalila Harris on Bringing The Other Black Girl to TV lithub.com/zakiya-dalila-… via Literary Hub

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness lithub.com/understanding-… via Literary Hub

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement lithub.com/the-hidden-sto… via Literary Hub

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on a Lifetime of Art and Activism lithub.com/nobel-laureate… via Literary Hub

How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern Literature nytimes.com/2023/10/13/mag…

“AI, Ain’t I A Woman?” On the Blindness and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence lithub.com/ai-aint-i-a-wo… via Literary Hub

Writing Discipline Envy: Tracy K. Smith Wakes Early and Meditates lithub.com/writing-discip… via Literary Hub

How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art lithub.com/how-michele-wa… via Literary Hub

The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead lithub.com/the-history-of… via Literary Hub