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Black American Literature Forum

The form flourished in the 1950s, as poets and musicians inspired each other to new heights.

The award-winning Black gay filmmaker, author, and activist Marlon Riggs left a legacy of protest against racism and homophobia.

Poems by African-American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Langston Hughes, Tyehimba Jess, Kevin Young, and more.

When we have the choice to look, we are bound ethically and politically to what we witness and what we do with what we have seen.

Two poems about the legendary blues artist B.B. King.

Thanksgiving is a feast so complex and semiotically dense that things are very often forgotten and rarely go according to plan.

Thanksgiving as we know it was deliberately invented in the nineteenth century.

From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.

A collection of our recent stories in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month.

On either side of the aisle, Black Friday surfaces systemic issues facing low-income communities of color.

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