The Black intellectual-activist Hubert Harrison espoused a “kaleidoscopic radicalism,” critiquing injustices of all sorts: racial segregation, exploitative capitalism, oppressive colonialism, even sexual convention. In Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black…
…Christmas!” Cranes? A gay novel? For Christmas? “I’ll find a copy.” “Start with Family Dancing, his first book. It’s all short stories.” All I knew of short stories were those…
…All of them had passed prior to or soon after her birth. Although they had passed on, they were remembered through family and community members’ talk of them. They left…
…plantation called Road’s End near the fictional town of Red Clay, Alabama. It opens in 1943, at the funeral of Felix Parker, whose parents were the enslaved valet and cook…
…a new bureaucratic organization of life. The assertion of a heterosexual imperative as the natural, normal, and proper way to be required an alternative defined in contrast as unnatural, abnormal,…
…the Confederacy’s Cherokee allies, led by Principal Chief Stand Watie, didn’t give up until late June. Confederate naval action, in the form of raids by the CSS Shenandoah, continued until…
