"Asante's book, Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge, continues his project of forging a new discipline out of the many strands of Black Studies. Like his previous works, this is a profound statement of the Afrocentric perspective."...C. Tsehloane Keto, Ph.D., Director of...
A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the life stories of Aaliyah Haughton, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, and others to explore sexuality, survival, queer mourning, and the afterlives of stardom“Poet m. mick...
What is a person to do with the pain, anger, fear, frustration and dismay of Black defamation and demise due to White supremacy's racism and anti-Blackness? Even more, how does one celebrate the triumph of surviving and escaping enslavement, establishing...
Negro Poets and Their Poems by Robert Thomas Kerlin is one of the earliest comprehensive studies and anthologies devoted to African American poetry. Published in 1923, this groundbreaking work introduced readers to a vibrant body of literary art that was reshaping...
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America...
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into a slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America...
In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead –– including 50,000 children –– and 750,000 citizens forced to take refuge in neighboring countries....