Category Archives: Black Studies

Celebrating Black History Month 2025

By | February 12, 2025
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Celebrate this year’s Black History Month in the US with us and browse some of our literary studies highlights below! Visit our website for a curated list of the best books and resources across subjects. Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joansby Steven Belletto Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation.… Read More »

Who was Alice Dunbar-Nelson?

By | July 19, 2022
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While sitting in a classroom at Dillard University of New Orleans in the 1990’s, I met Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935). She, as we would say back then, “rocked my world.” Nearly one hundred years removed from the characters in her first collection, Violets and Other Tales, Dunbar-Nelson’s New Orleans was not a place that I knew.… Read More »