Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths Fourteen years ago, on February 27, 2005, I began blogging at J's Theater . I was regularly readi...

A young Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., high school basketball star at Power Memorial Catholic during the Catholic High School Athletic As...

The  James Baldwin: Transatlantic Commuter conference is underway at the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier , and it has been an ama...

It is been a long while since I posted any photos, as my posts in general so far this year have appeared rather sporadically. But it has be...

Every scholarly book is important (at some level) to its author, but as with other kinds of texts only a select few resound long beyond the...

The Black Arts Movement has rightly received extensive--though still not enough--critical and scholarly treatment as one of the major mom...