Kiese Laymon: The Author You Needed Last Summer
Kiese Laymon ingeniously familiarizes Black America on Black people’s grounds in his novels Heavy and How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America.
AUTHOR: Nataly Joseph
Pride In Pages: Rita Mae Brown
This badass, lesbian cat lady and author of Rubyfruit Jungle gave heteronormativity a huge metaphorical middle finger from day one.
Does Tom Hanks Know More Than A Black Scholar? I Guess So.
Why was Hank’s opinion on the Tulsa Race Massacre so important as to warrant an op-ed, published alongside those written by Black scholars?
15 Lies Your Teacher Told You
Loewen reveals the extent to which textbooks both educate and shelter students from the fluid, grey reality that is our country’s history.
In Defense Of: Textbooks
If we were to reconstruct these books to accurately reflect real history of this country, then maybe we can make room for the change that we wish to see.