@ProjectHBW

The History of Black Writing (HBW) has been in the forefront of Black literary research and recovery for over 40 years.

 Indiana University Bloomington
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Joined February 2011
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KU News Service@KUnews1 Feb 2023
Recently, a pair of scholars with @UnivOfKansas ties published an examination of Langston Hughes' relationship with his mother, Carrie. Read more about the work by John Edgar Tidwell, professor emeritus of @KUEnglish, and alumna Carmaletta Williams. news.ku.edu/2023/01/17/autho…

The ties that bind

Authors eye Langston Hughes through family lens

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History of Black Writing@ProjectHBW1 Feb 2023
We're celebrating Langston Hughes' Birthday! Langston Hughes was an American poet who is most known as one of the great leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. He is known for his works such as, Let American Be America Again, The Way of White Folks, and Montage of a Dream Deferred.
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KU News Service@KUnews1 Dec 2022
Novelist, poet and academic Margaret Walker is "the most important person that nobody knows," says @KUEnglish professor and @ProjectHBW founding director Maryemma Graham, whose biography of Walker is out now from @OxUniPress. news.ku.edu/2022/12/01/biogr…

Biography gives leading 20th-century Black writer Margaret Walker her due

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AAAS KU@KUafs6 Oct 2022
TODAY! — African Digital Humanities Symposium October 6, 10:00 am CT [via Zoom] #AAASKU For more information and to see the symposium schedule visit; africandh.ku.edu/symposium/2…   Register here: kansas.zoom.us/meeting/regis…
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CSSF@GunnCSSF29 Sep 2022
Today’s the day! We’re so excited to host our first Sturgeon Symposium! Things kick off at 3pm CST in the Hall Center for the Humanities with opening remarks from our director @GiselleAnatol. We hope to see you this afternoon!
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Gabi 📚@gabi_bookworm17 Sep 2022
Here are a few Latinx books you can download to your Kindle for free if you have Amazon Prime! gabimorataya.wordpress.com/2…
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Colored Conventions@CCP_org19 Jul 2022
Replying to @ProjectHBW @profgabrielle
Check out her digitized papers and this online exhibit at @UDLibrary. exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/vot… and library.udel.edu/digital-col…
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If you missed @ConcreteStories conversation with @VirginiaDeBerry and Donna Grant, catch up with the recording on YouTube now! youtu.be/tlrZ40WuU5s
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KU Department of English@KUEnglish11 Apr 2022
THIS WEEK! Stop by Wescoe Beach tomorrow and Wednesday from 9-3 for SAGE's baked goods and book fair. Everything priced at just $1! (Cash, card, and Venmo accepted) #KUenglish
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Shawn Leigh Alexander@S_L_Alexander10 Apr 2022
Colson Whitehead speaking at @PaperPlainsFest - Lawrence, KS
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AAAS KU@KUafs6 Apr 2022
Readings in Black Studies #AAASKU #BlackStudies #ReadingBlackStudies
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AAAS KU@KUafs26 Mar 2022
.@UnivOfKansas students are you looking for exciting, thought provoking courses for fall 2022? Be sure to check out these fabulous @KUafs classes. Enrollment is open… #AAASKU
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We're back! Join @ConcreteStories for a conversation about the @EssenceProject w. Donna Grant & Virginia DeBerry. April 5, 2022 @ 3pm ET/2pm CT/12pm PT online Brought to you by @BibSocAmer – @SoFCritBibRBS – @UNOWomensCenter – @ProjectHBW Register 🖱️ bit.ly/bsa-essence-book-toni…
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AAAS KU@KUafs19 Mar 2022
JOIN US on Monday (3.21) @DrTTGreen on her new book See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During The Interwar Era | March 21 @ 5:30 PM [CST] RSVP @ TINYURL.COM/3EV6CNRP #AAASKU #BlackStudies @RutgersUPress
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AAAS KU@KUafs10 Mar 2022
Due to weather, & the cancelation of classes, @bronaldbyrd’s lecture has become a hybrid event - RSVP for the Zoom link below, or join us on campus in the Bush/Harrison AAAS Seminar Room - 3.10 @ 3pm [CST] #AAASKU tinyurl.com/2p86au7r
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AAAS KU@KUafs8 Mar 2022
57 yrs ago (3/8/1965), inspired by the voting rights campaign in Selma & Bloody Sunday, KU students launched a historic sit-in in the administration building, Strong Hall, challenging segregation policies on the campus. 1/4
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AAAS KU@KUafs4 Mar 2022
JOIN US 3.21 @DrTTGreen on her new book See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During The Interwar Era | March 21 @ 5:30 PM [CST] RSVP @ HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/3EV6CNRP #AAASKU #BlackStudies @RutgersUPress
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Join author and distinguished professor @esglaude from @Princeton this Friday, Feb. 25th at the KU union as he speaks about the ethics of anti-racism.
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AAAS KU@KUafs16 Feb 2022
Pass Me the Mic: A Black History/Black Futures Storytelling Experience @SpencerMuseum [Feb. 24 @ 5:30PM – 7:30PM CST]
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AAAS KU@KUafs13 Feb 2022
Join us tomorrow at 6pm [Bailey Hall rm 105] for a conversation with Candice Hoyes. Then catch her performance on the 15th at 7:30 pm [Murphy Hall] #AAASKU <candicehoyes.com/bio>
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I wrote about current insights we can gain from Zora Neale Hurston's take on segregation and Black emotional labor for @visiblemagazine, part of my work as a #PublicVoices Fellow of @TheOpEdProject and @uindy: visiblemagazine.com/zora-nea…

Zora Neale Hurston was prescient on race by Leah Milne - VISIBLE Magazine

In 1953, almost a year after Brown v. Board of Education determined school segregation to be unconstitutional, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a letter to the editor of the Orlando Sentinel expressing her...

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