- HBW celebrated the lives of Norman Jordan and Paul Vesey (Samuel Allen), two great writers and thinkers.
- Jerry Ward discussed the effect of the digital medium on Asili Ya Nadhiri's poetic performance.
- Dr. Ward also wondered if studies about how literature effects the brain have been conducted by his colleagues in Chinese universities.
- Dr. Howard Rambsy II rounded up his thoughts and reflections from HBW & NEH's recent summer seminar Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement over at Cultural Front. (He also posted this excellent piece about book endorsements, spurred by Toni Morrison's words about Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me.)
- Justina Ireland notes the privilege underlying many critics' reviews of black social commentary like Coates's book.
- Relatedly, The Atlantic has been hosting a Between the World and Me book club, the last installment of which goes up today. Read them here (covering chapters 1 & 2), here (chapters 3 & 4), and here (chapter 5 & 6).
- Errin Whack takes issue with the idea that Atticus Finch's more overt racism in Go Set a Watchman damages To Kill a Mockingbird. Rather, she says it is a more complex, adult view on racism.
- The extraordinary Roxane Gay writes about letting go of the love she once had for Bill Cosby in light of what she now knows about his crimes.
- John Metta published "I, Racist," the text of a "congregational reflection" he gave to an all-white church congregation in late June about why he stopped speaking to white people about race for a long time - and why he's starting again.
- While at Comic-Con to promote March: Book Two, a graphic novel about the Civil Rights Movement, Representative John Lewis of Georgia recreated the outfit he wore in the march on Selma.
- If you live in Douglas County, Kansas, submissions for the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award are now open!
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