The Project on the History of Black Writing is pleased to welcome our colleagues from the Japanese Black Studies Association, one of the o...

“Break It Down” is a HBW Literary Blog initiative that strives to offer critical interpretations of song lyrics, excerpts from ...

[By Kenton Rambsy] “Oprah’s Book Club” contributed greatly to helping well-known and lesser-known black writers gain exposure to mains...

[By Kenton Rambsy] Over the course of the past year, Toni Morrison has been a major focus for HBW blog posts as we seek to foster ...

[By Kenton Rambsy] This May, Nobel Prize Winning writer Toni Morrison released her 10 th novel, Home . The relatively short novel (ap...

[By Kenton Rambsy] In recent weeks, numerous blog sites , newspapers , and other online forums have been buzzing talking about Jay-Z and Be...

[By Goyland Williams] “Break It Down” is an HBW Literary Blog initiative that strives to offer critical interpretations of song lyrics, e...

   [By Goyland Williams]   The same year The Bluest Eye (1970) was published, the Black Power Movement and other black struggles for libera...

[By Professor Jerry Ward] Having made proposals about the continual and continuous Africanist presence in the American literary imaginati...

Please leave your thoughts in the comment section [By Kenton Rambsy] Tony Bolden, author of Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American ...

Literary Vantage Points is the HBW’s newest initiative geared towards engaging our audience members in conversations about African Americ...