Bloomsbury presents Writing Black Panther by Howard Rambsy II, read by Greg LockettA timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates’s presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious 50-issue run of the Marvel comic c...

Draws on twenty years of firsthand teaching experience, student stories, and campus data to show how culturally grounded reading and discussion can support intellectual growth and improve college success for African American men.The Convergence tells the inside story of a first-semester literature course for Black men at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, taught every fall since 2004. Drawing on twenty years of classroom practice, student voices, a...

This is a story based on the factual journey taken by Betts Blackshed to America from Trinidad to find the family that his father left during the War of 1812. Betts father had fought on the side of the British as a Marine during the war. After the death of his father and with the Civil War in America being over Betts began a journey to find his long lost family in America.

Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized.Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began raising concerns that white media outlets consistently elevated only one Black writer at a time, thus limiting the broader success of multiple Black authors. Drawing on literary data work and analyzing sources like ...

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and inspiration for literary production, Rambsy puts a wide variety of contemporary African American...

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious 50-issue run of the Marvel comic coincided with ongoing and multifaceted debates concerning diversity and inclusion – what we might ca...

OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, André “André 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post–civil rights southern identity that combines the roots of funk, psychedelia, haute couture, R&B, faith and spirituality, and Afrof...