Day Trips and Hikes Outside of Paris

I’ve been in Paris, at this point, for a little over two months, and during that time I’ve travelled outside of the city almost every…

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The Decline of Empires in James Baldwin’s “No Name in the Street”

While doing research on the massacre of around 200 Algerians in October 1961 and William Gardner Smith’s novel The Stone Face, which…

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Why Do We Love Dogs As Much As We Do?

Bergen and Mico. Photo by the author’s son. When I initially read Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow earlier this year, I thoroughly enjoyed its depth and complexity on various levels, so I was very excited to see Craig Gillespie’s film based on the comic. I don’t want to get into the controversy surrounding the ways that the adaptation departs from the originial text, which you can find online if you want; instead, I want to take the conversation in a different direction, focusing on Kara Zor-El’s relationship with her dog Krypto in the film.

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Evil Island - “Melted Heart ft. Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells” (Official Music Video)

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How Does One Become a Better Writer? Read! Write! Repeat!

Since I am in Paris for this semester, I am doing a couple of asynchronous courses online. One of those is my “Who is the Black Panther?”…

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Emery Premiere “Slurry” Music Video As ‘Styrofoam’ Arrives

Emery have released their tenth album ‘Styrofoam’ and premiered a new music video for “Slurry” to celebrate its arrival.

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What Have I Been Reading in 2026?

It’s June, and that means that we are almost halfway through 2026. It also means that it’s time for me to share some of the books I’ve been reading this year. To this point, I have read about seventy five books. That puts me halfway to my goal of one hundred and fifty books for the year. As usual, I rotate my reading, moving from fiction to nonfiction to drama to graphic novels and comics.

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More Photos from My Excurisons in Paris

Last month, I posted about some of my favorite photos from Paris during my first couple of weeks. In that post, I mainly shared some images…

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Life Continues Without Us: The Stoppage of Time When We Travel

Sunset over the Seine taken by the author Whenever you go on a trip, whether the voyage constitutes a vacation or even work, you experience a certain suspension of time. You leave your normal everyday routine and find yourself unmoored from time, even if your family, friends, or co-workers accompany you on your journey. It’s a feeling that makes you forget what day it is.

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“If we must live we must rise:” Palestinian Resistance and Solidarity Through History in “The Olive Tree”

Vincent Lemire, Christophe Gaultier, and Marie Galpoin frame The History Of Jerusalem: An Illustrated Story of 4,000 Years around the narration of “Zeitoun or Olivia, whichever you prefer,” a 4,000 year-old olive tree overlooking Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives. Zeitoun begins welcoming the reader to the history of Jerusalem by telling us, “Hello! Shalom! Salam!” By opening the narration in this manner, Zeitoun highlights the multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious history of Jerusalem, a place where, as Zeitoun says, where everything connects, from the desolate desert and Dead Sea to “the fertile plain and the Mediterranean” to the space “between men and gods, between the world of the living and the world of the dead.” Zeitoun’s roots sink deep into the earth, nourished by rain and sun, and their branches reach towards the sky, gazing, from the top of the mountain, upon Jerusalem.

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Revisiting Nirvana’s “In Utero” Over 30 Years After Its Release

Coming of age in the 1990s, I remember diving deep, and I mean deep, into Nirvana. Growing up fairly conservative in an evangelical environment, I didn’t really listen to any “secular” music at all expect maybe the blues nights on the local NPR station or adult contemporary stuff. I really did lead a sheltered existence when it came to music. That all changed, though, when one my friend’s brother, who played drums in metal bands, let me borrow Nirvana’s…

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The Art and Surrealism of Leonora Carrington

A couple of years ago, I picked up Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, a memoir she details a psychotic break that she had, in 1940, as the…

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The Art and Surrealism of Leonora Carrington

A couple of years ago, I picked up Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, a memoir she details a psychotic break that she had, in 1940, as the…

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MLK And Lillian Smith - AAIHS

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee concluded a three-day ...

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Reading Jan Carson’s “The Fire Starters” While in Belfast

Whenever I travel, I always visit local bookstores. Even if I don’t purchase a book, I do this because I want to see what books they have available and I also want to see what books I may add to my to be read pile. During our study travel trip to Belfast, I must have walked into around fifteen bookstores, ranging from new books stores such as…

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Communing with Those Who Came Before: Walking in Their Steps

When I go to a new place, I always think about who has been there before. I think about the paths I walk and who, before I even entered…

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Two Nations, One Struggle: Irish and Palestinian Solidarity

Mural in Derry Photo by Author When preparing students for our trip to Belfast, I told them to pay close attention to the murals, graffiti, stickers, and the language that they would encounter during our walks through the cities. Specifically, I told them to pay particular attention to the ways that republicans present solidarity with global struggles around the world, specifically with the Palestinian struggle.

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Knowing a Place as You Read a Novel: Walking the Streets of William Gardner Smith’s “The Stone…

I first picked up William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face about three or four years ago. I taught it in my Black Expatriate Writers in…

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Artistic Depictions of the Power of Reading

Throughout Anna Burns’ Milkman, Middle-Sister reads wherever she goes. She reads as she walks, and people tell her to look up, to pay…

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Language and the Crafting of Anger and Fear

Mural in West Belfast Throughout Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses, language plays an important role in the ways that it defines individuals and creates divisions even where similarities exist. During a session with Michel Agnew and his friends, Cushla teaches them Irish. One of Michael’s friends, Victor, goads Cushla into teaching him the Irish words that would denigrate her as a Catholic, Irish speaker.

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Artistic Depictions of the Power of Reading

Throughout Anna Burns’ Milkman, Middle-Sister reads wherever she goes. She reads as she walks, and people tell her to look up, to pay…

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