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Sep 12, 2024 · This is a tale of A BLACK MAN, not THE BLACK MAN, for we're not a monolith. We each have different ways of being. Maybe a collection like this changes perceptions, for we're not only a group who share a similar hue. There's a range to our melanin, a variety in BLACK MEN, not every man is hyper-masculine.
Sep 3, 2024 · Richard Wright (1908–60) was a novelist and short-story writer who inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other Black writers after World War II. From the late 1930s through the 1950s, Wright was a dominant voice laying bare the discrimination and injustice that Black Americans were experiencing, notably through his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945).
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3 days ago · The Black Book. The 1986 solo exhibition Black Males and the subsequent book The Black Book sparked controversy over Mapplethorpe’s depiction of black men as sexual subjects. The work was largely phallocentric and sculptural, focusing on segments of the subject’s bodies.
1 day ago · African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
3 days ago · "Black Star" by Kwame Alexander is the second installment in The Door of No Return series, continuing the powerful narrative that began with the story of Kofi Offin in the first book. This time, the focus shifts to Kofi's granddaughter, Charley Cuffman, a 12-year-old girl growing up in a segregated town during the Great Migration.
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Sep 9, 2024 · James Baldwin was an essayist, novelist, and playwright whose eloquence and passion on the subject of race in America made him one of the most important voices of the 20th century. He was also one of the first Black writers to include queer themes in fiction, notably in Giovanni’s Room (1956), writing with a frankness that was highly controversial at the time. His works include the novel Go ...
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2 days ago · Neil deGrasse Tyson (US: / dəˈɡræs / də-GRASS or UK: / dəˈɡrɑːs / də-GRAHSS; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton ...
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