Category: African American / Black Studies

March 11, 2015

Interview with James Davis, author of "Eric Walrond," Part 2

The following is the second half of our article with James Davis, author of Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean. You can read part 1 here. Question: One of the more fascinating aspects of...

March 10, 2015

An Interview with James Davis, Author of "Eric Walrond"

Read part 1 of our interview with James Davis, author of “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean”

March 9, 2015

Mary Helen Washington at the Schomburg Center on Wednesday

Come hear Mary Helen Washington discuss her new book “The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s,” Wednesday night with Farah Jasmine Griffin.

February 19, 2015

The Other Blacklist — An Interview with Mary Helen Washington

Mary Helen Washington, author of “The Other Blacklist,” discusses how leftist politics shaped African American literature and culture.

February 18, 2015

Eric Walrond, Harlem Renaissance Forgotten Giant — James Davis

An article on and an upcoming event for “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean,” by James Davis

February 17, 2015

Interview with Houston Baker and K. Merinda Simmons, editors of The Trouble with Post-Blackness

An interview with Houston Baker and K. Merinda Simmons about their new book “The Trouble with Post-Blackness”

January 30, 2015

The Fate of Black and Latino Politicians in New York City — Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie on the history and future of Black and Latino politicians in New York City.

January 29, 2015

The Role of Black and Latino Students in the 1968 Takeover of Columbia University — Frederick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie on how Black and Latino students and student organizations worked with the Harlem community during the 1968 protests at Columbia.

January 28, 2015

Interview with Frederick Douglass Opie, author of "Upsetting the Apple Cart"

Read an interview with Frederick Douglass Opie about the history of Black-Latino relations in New York City.

January 27, 2015

Food, Unions, and Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City — Frederick Douglass Opie

One of the earliest coalitions among Blacks and Latinos in New York City was among hospital workers at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx. In the following excerpt from Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest...

June 11, 2014

The Myth of the Missing Black Father

“The black male. A demographic. A sociological construct. A media car­icature. A crime statistic…. Rarely a father. Indeed, if one judged by popular and academic coverage, one might think the term ‘black fatherhood’ an oxymoron.” With Father’s Day coming up,...

April 10, 2014

Excerpt from The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, by Mary Helen Washington. In this excerpt Washington discusses the important, but often overlooked, role of the Communist...