The Silence of Black Women Writers

Black writers are a cursed lot.By its virtue of its origin, suture and function, black writing ismission conscious and is necessarily a hazardous undertaking. In turn being a black writer is an enobiling, exigency and black literature constitutes one … [Continue reading]

Paul Beatty is an Effin Genius

I read Slumberland last September in one evening. Yes, it was that good. Its a book about a DJ who makes theperfect beat and sets off to Germany on a mission to find a jazzartist, the Schwa, to make it complete.Race, Hitler, Jazz, Interacial … [Continue reading]