2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (414+ words) A new biography by Cornell literature scholar George Hutchinson examines how Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer's ideas about race shaped his fiction, public identity and personal struggles. Hutchinson's book argues that Toomer sought an American identity beyond the racial categories…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1319+ words) Not all musicals can survive the Great White Way. Any passing theatre fan will know that Broadway has encountered a fair few flops in its time. Whether its mediocre music, tense political context or, you know, actors falling off trapezes,…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (426+ words) The musical stars Lara Allison, Emily Taylor Kaufman, Dan Olson, and Nathan Pecchia. Get all the top news & discounts for Off-Broadway & beyond. No password required. AMT Theater has released its first look at the strictly limited four-week engagement of the…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (623+ words) Critical media literacy that accounts for race and focuses on understanding and critiquing systematic racial inequalities within media is needed now more than ever, says Howard University associate professor Christine McWhorter, Ph.D, Department of Media, Journalism, and Film. McWhorter…...

5+ day, 22+ min ago   (290+ words) After Lorrie Moore and Kiese Laymon. You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and Black Studies and the safest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (64+ words) The Times Can Sebastian Barry pull off writing from a slave’s perspective? The five-time Booker nominee is a ‘silver-tongued devil’. In The Newer World, he returns to 19th-century America, telling the story of a man freed from slavery £1 for 3 months…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (408+ words) Three outstanding contributions to inclusion and community harmony have been recognised at the Blacktown City Multicultural Awards. In a community of 460,000 people representing more than 180 nationalities, the awards recognise people and organisations whose work helps build connections across Blacktown City....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (333+ words) PR.com Aki Rashi has completed a new book, "The Silent Ghetto Poetry Of Aki Rashi," a collection of handwritten poems born from lived experience and emotional truth Each verse emerges from moments—both fortunate and unfortunate—that have left…...

3+ week, 10+ min ago   (1138+ words) Jerry Falade, the Nigerian writer who sparked a $2m book-bidding war in the US, is the latest in a spate of Black writers to see major deals implode under suspicion of AI use. So why is it that white writers who…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1655+ words) The Disappearers is ultimately a novel of erasure. Characters vanish from their communities and the narrative after the attack, either by choice or by force. Queer life is pushed to the margins by a society shaped under great power imbalances....