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Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

Susana M. Morris on the Early Writing of a Literary Icon

By Susana M. Morris | August 19, 2025

The Life of Herod the Great

The Life of Herod the Great

Zora Neale Hurston

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 7, 2025

Shirley Chisholm on Why She Ran for President

Shirley Chisholm on Why She Ran for President

“I ran because someone had to do it first.”

By Shirley Chisholm | November 21, 2022

When Rick James Fought to Get Black Artists on MTV

When Rick James Fought to Get Black Artists on MTV

Ramon Hervey II on a Lesser-Known Moment in Music History

By Ramon Hervey II | August 19, 2022

A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

A Beautiful, Sacred Thing: Megan Giddings on Going to the Movies To Invoke Anger

Or, Finding the Line Between Art and Entertainment

By Megan Giddings | August 11, 2022

How a 1970s Literary Travelogue Can Transform Us All

How a 1970s Literary Travelogue Can Transform Us All

An African in Greenland ">David Santos Donaldson on Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s An African in Greenland

By David Santos Donaldson | June 7, 2022

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“There He Go”

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On the Black Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Uncovering the Origins of Family Lore

On the Black Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Uncovering the Origins of Family Lore

Gayle Jessup White Considers What It Means to Remember the Past

By Gayle Jessup White | November 18, 2021

On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

On the Unattainable Myth of Feminine Beauty Ideals and Our Culture of Fat Phobia

Sesali Bowen Considers What It Means to Be a "Bad Bitch" and the Politicization of Attractiveness

By Sesali Bowen | October 18, 2021

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Lessons Not Yet Learned: How Post-Civil War Reconstruction Never Ended

Eric Foner on a Nation Still Grappling with the Consequences of Slavery

By Eric Foner | September 17, 2021

The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

Louis Edwards Traces His Long Publishing Journey

By Louis Edwards | August 23, 2021

The Inner Lives of Black Women: On Novels That Break the Chains of Trauma

The Inner Lives of Black Women: On Novels That Break the Chains of Trauma

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By Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler | July 1, 2021

How a Pioneering Mathematician Held Her Family Together in the Wake of Her Husband's Medical Emergency

How a Pioneering Mathematician Held Her Family Together in the Wake of Her Husband's Medical Emergency

Katherine Johnson on the Diagnosis That Altered Family Life Forever

By Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick, and Katherine Moore | May 26, 2021

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