Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a Black author known for writing “Invisible Man,” the 1953 National Book Award winner and an influential work in American literature. Like much of Ellison’s ...

Books have the ability to heal and transform. As the country combats politically and racially driven book bans, it only ...

This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current ... and revolutionary imaginaries. Chapters explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how ...

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American Airlines has settled a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by three Black men who alleged they were thrown off a plane in January for a false complaint about body odor. Terms of the ...

Kenton studies Black Appalachian literature (specifically the work of the Affrilachian collective), and his work investigates the historical link between mainstream cultural representations of ...

American Airlines has settled the lawsuit filed by three Black men who were kicked off a flight in January over a “body odor” allegation, according to the law firms representing the men.

“There’s a weird dichotomy that happens, where you can have people who are black Jewish authors, but they are never considered part of Jewish American literature,” Rishon said. “James ...

Daphne Lamothe is a literary and cultural studies scholar with research and teaching interests in African American, Afro-Caribbean and Black migration and transnational literatures. She holds a ...