Cornelius Fortune

Cornelius Fortune’s work has appeared in Yahoo News, CinemaBlend, The Advocate, The Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, Midwest Living, In the Fray, and others. He holds an MA in English Literature and has taught composition, technical writing, as well as poetry and drama at Jackson College. Before going into education, he served as managing editor of the Michigan Chronicle –– the state’s oldest weekly black newspaper –– and senior editor of BLAC Detroit magazine. He is currently pursuing a PhD in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.

The Superman costume as worn by Christopher Reeve in Superman III

Shifting Identities

Still American?

A rumination on Superman, Black consciousness, and living the dream.

Arts & Culture

Is it a Crime?

An appreciation of Gertrude Stein’s pulp explorations.

Collage of Magazine and Newspaper coveres

Reveal Digital Collections

Independent Voices of the Black American Press

The digitized newspapers in this open access collection offer insight into the country’s diverse civil rights movements following the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Donald Goines, from the back cover of an early edition of Dopefiend

Arts & Culture

Donald Goines, Detroit’s Crime Writer Par Excellence

The writer used hard-boiled fiction as a wide lens to accurately capture the widescreen disparity of Black life in the 1970s.

Editors' Picks

Arts & Culture

Doing Math with Intellectual Humility

Math class is an opportunity to teach students both how to use conjecture to arrive at knowledge and how to learn from the logic of peers.

Arts & Culture

Willie Mae Thornton Deserves Your Full Attention

In a meditative new biography, DJ and scholar Lynnée Denise examines the mysteries and trials in the life of the legendary performer.

Politics & History

The Fourteenth Amendment: Annotated

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution addresses citizenship rights, due process, and equal protection under the law.

Education & Society

Class Production

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.

Education & Society

Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts

Research about intellectual humility has exploded in the past decade. Psychologist Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso offers an annotated bibliography of key texts.

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