The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward E Baptist
The international slave-trade from Africa to the New World was banned by England in 1807, America in 1808, Spain, Sweden …
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“Blood Done Sign My Name” & “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” – Two Stories of the White South
Following my reading of Susan Neiman’s, Learning From the Germans, in which she examines America’s and Germany’s differing responses to the …
Quick Recommendations
A quick note to applaud Will Smith’s “Amend: The Fight for America” now on Netflix. A very well done six …
Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000 …
The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s …
Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
Black Boy – Richard Wright
It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it …
Begin Again – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. Though he primarily writes of religion …
James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …
Reading the Classics: Zora Neale Hurston
The fight over what are the “essential” books to read in the world-as-it-is-becoming, is at least several generations old. The …
“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin, …
James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a …