‘The people’s painter’ left mark in Black art internationally — but shined in NC hometown
Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...
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How revolutionary writer Essex Hemphill gave poetic voice to the Black Queer experience
New Directions Publishing Essex HemphillThe Great Storyteller 1957-1995 As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a ...
The ‘American Debrecan’ - Cleveland’s Hungarian Cultural Garden
CLEVELAND, Ohio - When you are a member of one of the largest ethnic populations in Cleveland during the founding of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, you are likely to be one of the first let into the ...
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When This Brilliant Author Died, She Left Behind a Legacy of Grief, Haunting Poetry and Surprising Resilience
Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...
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Building Narrative Power With BIPOC Artists
There is no culture change without support for artists to become agents of change. SSIR.org and/or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and to our better ...
The Outsider Who Captured American Loneliness
The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.
10 Latino-owned bookstores and comic shops
What an embarrassment of riches Southern California has when it comes to Latinx bookstores. We want to give honorable mention ...
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Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.
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WI2025: Memory and Loss: PW Talks with Ocean Vuong
In ‘The Emperor of Gladness’ (Penguin Press, May), the sophomore novelist crafts a narrative that subverts traditional ...