Today Twitter  (naturally) brought some very good news: one of my poems, "Words," which the brilliant poet and critic Dawn Lun...

A screenshot of my very first post, from February 27, 2005 (Copyright © J's Theater) On this date thirteen years ago, I started b...

When most people think of the Harlem Renaissance , they probably summon the names of its major literary and visual atists-- Langston Hugh...

Annotations , my first book, appeared 23 years ago, when New Directions published it in the fall of 1995. In the intervening years, the b...

BLACK PANTHER This weekend brought the debut of  Ryan Coogler 's newest directorial triumph,  Black Panther,   a Marvel Studios pr...

The poster for Inxeba   (The Wound ) Last year, a realist film set in Africa -- South Africa , to be specific--debuted, both to great ...

Carnaval in Recife, 2018 It's that time of the year: Carnival in the Caribbean, Hispanophone  Latin America , and Europe , Carnaval...

The signs read, "Brazil is quilombo residents; not one less quilombo" All over the Americas, when fugitive slaves had the op...