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Tag Archives: Lorraine Hansberry
Exploring Book Bans: The Impact on Black Literature
On a recent summer trip to Virgina, where one could argue that it all began in 1619, that is, the enslavement of Africans in what would become the United States of America, I stopped at a Barnes & Noble. During … Continue reading →
Posted in Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, ezwwaters, Lest We Forget, Martin Luther King, Politics, race, Religion, Slavery
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Tagged 1619, 1619 Project, Alice Walker, Banned books, Barnes & Noble, Black Wall Street, Cesar Chavez, Florida, Kansas, Lorraine Hansberry, Martin Luther King Jr., Oklahoma, PEN America, Pennsylvania, Rosa Parks, Rosewood, Texas, The Birth of a Nation, The Clansman, The Fire Next Time, Thomas Dixon Jr., Through the Fire, Toni Morrison, Virginia
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Advancing Alice Walker — and Her Nonfiction
I have a love-hate relationship with the body of work of Alice Walker. I love Walker’s nonfiction, and even some of her autobiographical sketches, where her prose, even when it is expressing anger, is righteous anger. Her nonfiction is clear, … Continue reading →
Posted in ezwwaters, Fatherhood, Fathers, race, raising black boys, Reentry, Relationships, Short Stories
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Tagged ALice Childress, Alice Walker, Anne Petry, Audre Lorde, Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters, Brown Girl Brownstone, Dorothy West, Edwidge Danticat, Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ida B. Wells, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, Jamaica Kincaid, Jazz, Jub liee, Jubilee, June Jordan, Kindred, Lorraine Hansberry, Margaret Walker, Maya Angelou, Meridian, Nikki Giovanni, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler, Paule Marshall, protest novel, Rita Dove, Sonia Sanchez, Suzan-Lori Parks, The Color Purple, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Women of Brewster Bplace, Toni Morrison, Topdog/Underdog, Wild Seed
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