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Flannery O’Connor’s Only Two Known Recordings

From the Criterion Collection disc Wise Blood: Taped at the Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series at Wesleyan College in 1960: (videos courtesy of http://www.BrainPickings.Org, with attached article by Maria Popova) While I am overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of inventions raging for slices of our finite attention, a carnival of art and creativity my generation only knows as contemporary … Continue reading Flannery O’Connor’s Only Two Known Recordings →

Marion Ettlinger’s Author Photos: Black Writers Shot by Famed Literary Photographer

 About Marion Ettlinger: Marion Ettlinger graduated from the High School of Music and Art and The Cooper Union in New York City. She has been photographing writers since 1983. Her book Author Photo, Portraits: 1983-2002, containing more than 200 black-and-white portraits shot exclusively in natural light, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2003 (bio courtesy of Marion Ettlinger.com). … Continue reading Marion Ettlinger’s Author Photos: Black Writers Shot by Famed Literary Photographer →

Tulsa Race Riot miniseries to come to OWN.

In 1929, race riots tore down the little-known area of America once known as "Black Wall Street," where hundreds of middle-class and upwardly mobile African-Americans sheltered for their own version of the American dream. The community burned to the ground, and finally the unsung heroes of this era will have their say to national audiences … Continue reading Tulsa Race Riot miniseries to come to OWN. →

“You May Sit Beside Me”: Visual Narratives of Black Women & Queer Identities

Layla Amatullah Barrayn's latest exhibition of recent photography spotlights real Black women in love, building families and strengthening communities; the photographs are intimate without sexual suggestion, natural without lacking stupendous beauty and just large enough for you to think these women of color stand right in the room.