Black Voices

Akron State of Mind

Did I betray my friends by moving to the suburbs?

William Evans

Conversations

Raising the Dead

Three writers on engaging and honoring their ghosts

Aricka Foreman,

Krista Franklin,

and

avery r. young

The Ghost of Henry Dumas

Since his mysterious death, the poet's spirit has haunted my family

Treasure Shields Redmond

Race Off

The fantasy of race transformation

Namwali Serpell

Pillars at National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama

The Hauntologies of Slavery

On a journey across the sea

Jonah Mixon-Webster

Illustration of fluid black shapes and chairs by Laura Padilla Castellanos

The Black Shape Slumped in a Chair

Kerry James Marshall and the Taliesin murders

Aisha Sabatini Sloan

What if we practiced a type of protest that deploys ecstasy in the middle of struggle?

Roger Reeves "The Uses of Memory

A Black woman raises her fist at a protest against police violence. Joyce by Miki J / Creative Commons

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character

Winsome Pinnock

Four Days

Cornelius Eady

Picturing Catastrophe

The visual politics of racial reckoning

Rizvana Bradley

Becoming a Playwright

The sources of my storytelling

Michael R. Jackson

Graphic with a window with an orange glow, cigarettes, and wine bottles

Colonial Conditions

Brandon Taylor

A photograph of Ann Petry.

Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows

Emily Bernard

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Black Voices

Reclaiming Tituba

The real story behind Arthur Miller's character

Winsome Pinnock

December 6, 2022

The cast of A Strange Loop singing and dancing.

Becoming a Playwright

The sources of my storytelling

Michael R. Jackson

November 10, 2021

Installation of found hand mirrors arranged in an oval on a wall.

Race Off

The fantasy of race transformation

Namwali Serpell

September 27, 2021

Graphic with a window with an orange glow, cigarettes, and wine bottles

Colonial Conditions

Brandon Taylor

September 13, 2021

Person moves out of view in a dark area.

Picturing Catastrophe

The visual politics of racial reckoning

Rizvana Bradley

May 25, 2021

Pillars at National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama

The Hauntologies of Slavery

On a journey across the sea

Jonah Mixon-Webster

December 1, 2020

A Black woman raises her fist at a protest against police violence. Joyce by Miki J / Creative Commons

The Uses of Memory

Ecstasy in the midst of struggle

Roger Reeves

June 1, 2020

A bronze sculpture of a boy. Augusta Savage, Gamin, 1929.

Four Days

Cornelius Eady

July 1, 2019

A photograph of Ann Petry.

Nothing New Under the Sun

Ann Petry’s The Street and The Narrows

Emily Bernard

April 1, 2019