Category: Biography

  • Beautifully written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, this children’s book accompanies the major exhibition “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.”

  • Jefferson’s Women The Humanist: A Magazine of Critical Inquiry and Social Concern March/April 2012 Cleo Fellers Kocol Thomas Jefferson was a private man who kept his personal life to himself, and yet today 18,000 of his letters exist in the public forum. In them, this farmer, architect, inventor, philosopher, politician, attorney, and “man of letters”—learned…

  • Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination Florida State University 2009 201 pages Tatia Jacobson Jordan A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination follows the life and literary…

  • Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) University of Toronto Press June 2000 354 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802080240 Cloth ISBN: 9780802041623 Veronica Strong-Boag, Professor of Women’s History University of British Columbia Carole Gerson, Professor of English Royal Society of Canada at Simon Fraser University Winner of the Raymond Klibansky…

  • Symphony in Black and White: Krazy Kat Kontinued The Albany Times-Union Albany, New York 2008-11-20 Alexander Stern Don’t Touch My Comics: The Times Union Comics Panel takes a critical look at the funny pages. Some months ago, I wrote an appreciation of George Herriman’s classic strip, Krazy Kat; a strip frequently lauded as one of…

  • Rumblings of The Earth: Wifredo Lam, His Work and Words Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1996 23 minutes Denise Byrd Awards San Antonio CINEFEST, 1996 Latin American Studies Association, 1995 The Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam played a leading role in bringing the art of the non-white world to the attention of the…

  • Fearless Music: Garland Jeffreys ’65 Syracuse University Magazine Volume 28, Number 3 (Fall/Winter 2011) David Marc From his ’70s hit “Wild in the Streets” to his latest album, legendary singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has taken on life’s big issues with his own eclectic brand of music From the pages of The New Yorker to deep inside…

  • Building Multiracial Fortunes: Black Identity, Masculinity, and Authenticity Through the Body of T. Thomas Fortune, 1883-1907 San Diego State University Fall 2011 69 pages Guy Mount A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in History This thesis examines the…

  • Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84 minutes Germany English/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color,…

  • Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story Third World Newsreel 1997 28 minutes Germany German with English Subtitles Maria Binder A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the…