(Cornel West) The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times YouTube video by St. John's College

@cornelwest.bsky.social speaks at St John's College. "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times" -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7K...

@cornelwest.bsky.social recently spoke at my alma mater St John's College (in NM, I attended in MD). Sounds great: "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times." I hope he publishes it. Du Bois spoke at SJC too; West builds on that.
www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....

Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access).

The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic."

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#BET I really miss “106 & Park”

Melvin Gibbs’s How Black Music Took Over the World | The Brooklyn Rail For a relatively short (three-hundred pages) book on an enormous subject, it may seem impossible to be comprehensive. But Gibbs has the advantage of being one of music’s great inside-men, and he disce...

This looks fantastic! brooklynrail.org/2026/03/musi...

Writers Talking Writers: Benjamín Labatut on Roberto Bolaño The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.

The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.

Rudolph Fisher! A wonderful and under-read and understudied writer. A wizard at both the short and long form in fiction, which is a rare gift.

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Wow, flummoxed. My book is number four on new releases for African American literary criticism (as of this post) ... Really not sure how that happened.... But preorder your copy now! Don't miss out! www.amazon.com/new-releases...

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026, 3 PM - 12 AM
Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration.
nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online Upon hearing the names of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley, the saturated colors and organically askew lines of those painters' landscapes may appear before your mind's eye. But unless you have a specia...

#DH Project definitely worth checking out — all Georgia O Keefe works digitized: www.openculture.com/2026/03/ever...

Revolutionary Poetics

my upcoming book website from @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/R/Revo...

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Generative AI & Fictionality: How Novels Power Large Language Models Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...

New paper w/ @teddyroland.bsky.social on "How fiction powers generative AI systems." We designed a computational experiment to test the impact of the vast amount of fiction in LLM training data on how LLMs communicate, w/ implications for both AI design + literary theory. arxiv.org/abs/2603.01220

Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement - AAIHS The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of the era, calls “the cultural wing of the Black Power movement...

One more for International Women’s Day— a short piece I wrote on Billie Holiday’s importance to the Black Arts Movement www.aaihs.org/billie-holid...

I want to promote my book more on this site, but I have two hurdles.

1. I need an actual strategy.
2. I don't to annoy anyone/come off as a shill.

The first issue can be solved with research. I'm not sure about the second one. 😅

#writing #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky

Just a post in honor of the spiritual Godmother of the #Afrodeutsch movement on International Women’s Day, Audre Lorde! www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-...

Now we need a list of Black owned publishers!

The Gods in Small Doses: Stories by Josh Bell was reviewed in Foreword Reviews, which says it is “told in sharp and haunting prose, the[se] stories do a masterful job of blending the fantastical with the everyday."

To order: https://twp.ai/4iwDkt

#readUP

Last Day of #BlackHistoryMonth, posting my article on a little known speech #WEBDuBois gave on classical education at (Great Books) St John's College in Annapolis at the request of the only Black student there. Open Access. Dig the abstract & bookmark for later! amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...

We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

"Kuwornu shares the diverse African presence in Renaissance Europe that he found: princes, ambassadors, saints, artists, scholars, and knights—all revealed through art from the period"
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Du Bois continues to amaze. His last message to the world... credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

IG Live, this Thursday, about 5 PM EST to discuss the documentary and what comes next.

How Toni Morrison Brought Diverse Voices Into Publishing | All Of It | WNYC [REBROADCAST FROM June 17, 2025] You know Toni Morrison the writer, but what about Toni the editor? As she rose in literary fame, Morrison also worked in publishing as a senior editor...

Dana Williams on her interview with #ToniMorrison. If you're a Morrison fan and missed this, you'll want to catch it. It's priceless. Williams' book is now right up there on my list. www.wnyc.org/story/how-to...

Coming this year! Run by the National Urban League, so not subject to Govt $$$ and free to run the museum as free agents. urbancivilrightsmuseum.org

US judge orders reinstatement of Washington slavery exhibit The exhibit about people enslaved by George Washington was removed in January. Judge compared Trump administration to Ministry of Truth in dystopian Orwell novel "1984."

Black History Month and of course the administration tries to suppress Black History: www.dw.com/en/us-judge-...

Kalahari Hopscotch - Believer Magazine The following essay is adapted from a speech Greg Tate delivered at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, for their 2016 conference on Afro futurism. I. We are gathered here tonight to reflect upon all the rh...

Always worth a revisit. A classic of Afrofuturist literature. RIP the great late Greg Tate. www.thebeliever.net/kalahari-hop...

Chart showing usage statistics for African American Poetry a Digital Anthology. Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke's The New Negro, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay.

As Black History Month winds down, seeing a new high in monthly traffic for the digital collection I edit on Af-Am Poetry: 37,000 users in February.

Writings by Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay are the most in demand.

Some new additions to the site this month:

African American Poetry: "Four Lincoln University Poets" (Anthology, 1930) Anthology published at Lincoln University, featuring Langston Hughes, Edward Silvera, Waring Cuney, and William Allyn Hill

1. A simple digital edition of the volume "Four Lincoln University Poets" (1930). Including Langston Hughes, Edward Silvera, and Waring Cuney. All three influential Harlem Renaissance poets were undergrads at Lincoln at the same time!

scalar.lehigh.edu/african-amer...