HAPPY HUMP DAY P.O.U! "Wait Til Emmet Comes" … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African American Ghost Stories III
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Tuesday Open Thread: African American Ghost Stories III
GOOD MORNING POU! We continue our look at African-American Ghost Stories. THE GRAY WOLF'S HA'NT … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African American Ghost Stories III
Friday Morning Thread: Black and Red – The History of African-Americans and Communism
Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had Party membership or maintained regular meaningful contact with the Party." He stretched the truth, but barely. The magnetic appeal of communism for African American writers … [Read more...] about Friday Morning Thread: Black and Red – The History of African-Americans and Communism
Saturday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Today's focus is the fierce Carolyn Rodgers, a revolutionary Chicago poet of the Black Arts Movement. Carolyn Rodgers(1940-2010), a Chicago poet who first learned her trade in the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Writer's Workshop meetings and Gwendolyn Brooks's Writers Workshops, was distinctive as a new black woman poet in the late 1960s, when she … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Friday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement
Good Morning POU! Today we feature perhaps, the single most important person that provided black poets and authors an avenue for their works during the Black Arts Movement. Some of the most influential and powerful works of the era would not have been published if not for Dudley Randall and Broadside Press. Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement