Rutgers-Newark Labor Day  has come and gone, and in its wake the school year is off and racing. In addition to chairing African America...

It's nearly January, which is another way of saying that the fall semester has raced past and is now over. In addition to marking my ...

I'm currently out in Missoula, Montana for the inaugural  Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing  conference organized by poe...

First week of class The other day I was telling a colleague that I had only been at Rutgers-Newark  since the fall of 2012, and he e...

It feels both strange and exciting to note here that we are now in 2014; this past year seemed to unfold glacially, with ample amounts of t...

Rutgers undergraduate Paul Robeson with fellow football players On Tuesday, I resumed my old new  fall rhythm. "Old," becaus...