Absolutely love Zines Are Back! by @violetbfox.bsky.social, a funny & fascinating look at how the rise / fall of zines has been depicted by mainstream media over the past 20 years.

Yes. In fact I did clip this and immediately send it to all my friends. :)

Lilly Wachowski@lillywachowski.bsky.social · last mo.

If the Matrix films were made today Elie for sure would be included on Zions high council!!!

Have a new piece up on @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social about Black literature and politics 100 years after the Harlem Renaissance www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/t...

Thoughts on Black Literature and Politics a Hundred Years after the Harlem Renaissance

A hundred years ago, in November of 1926, a group of the younger Harlem Renaissance luminaries put together a transgressive little magazine they called

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Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Very sorry to hear this..

Gina Murrell@ginamurrell1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

R.I.P. to David Henderson (1942–2026), writer, poet, and "co-founder of Umbra Poets Workshop, a Lower East Side-based Black poets collective founded in 1962." Henderson was central to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s, esp in #NYC. www.instagram.com/p/DYX9vXjE4E2/ #poetry #BlackHistory

Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s) | Cost of Freedom book.costoffreedom.cc/index-4/arab...

Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s) | Cost of Freedom

Sulaiman Majaliarrow-up-right

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My latest on Amiri Baraka's Black Communications Archive is now open access: doi.org/10.1353/AFA....

Every short for "Saturday Night Live" is its own new mini-production. These "pretape" sketches (fake ads, music videos and other shorts) go from a writer’s imagination to TV in a few days. They have been part of "SNL" since the beginning. Here's a behind-the-scenes look.

How ‘S.N.L’ Shorts Are Made Behind the Scenes

A rare glimpse behind the scenes reveals a frenetic process that has been refined across decades.

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From Dr Ainehi Edoro's Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

(Reposting this for the time zones when I'm usually asleep)

andré carrington@andrecarrington.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trying this out with a clip from the Black Studies Podcast. I'm learning! #Audiofuturism @fordhampress.bsky.social

Book is finally out! Published with @umasspress.bsky.social 'The Image and the Fire" uses a #BlackStudies methodology to elucidate how Poundian Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance & the Black Arts Movements are in dialogue with each other. www.umasspress.com/978162534950...

The Image and the Fire

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a small, outsider literary collection—a...

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Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Hey all! My book comes out in a week (May 8th!), and the book page is now up on @aalbc.bsky.social -- a website that supports #BlackBooks and #BlackWriters. My book is available everywhere, but I wanted to give special mention to AALBC for the great work they do. aalbc.com/books/the-im...

@cornelwest.bsky.social speaks at St John's College. "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times" -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7K...

(Cornel West) The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times

YouTube video by St. John's College

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@cornelwest.bsky.social recently spoke at my alma mater St John's College (in NM, I attended in MD). Sounds great: "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times." I hope he publishes it. Du Bois spoke at SJC too; West builds on that. www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....

Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access). The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This looks fantastic! brooklynrail.org/2026/03/musi...

Melvin Gibbs’s How Black Music Took Over the World | The Brooklyn Rail

For a relatively short (three-hundred pages) book on an enormous subject, it may seem impossible to be comprehensive. But Gibbs has the advantage of being one of music’s great inside-men, and he disce...

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The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.

Writers Talking Writers: Benjamín Labatut on Roberto Bolaño

The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.

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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Wow, flummoxed. My book is number four on new releases for African American literary criticism (as of this post) ... Really not sure how that happened.... But preorder your copy now! Don't miss out! www.amazon.com/new-releases...

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026, 3 PM - 12 AM Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration. nightofideas.org/san-francisco/

#DH Project definitely worth checking out — all Georgia O Keefe works digitized: www.openculture.com/2026/03/ever...

Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online

Upon hearing the names of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley, the saturated colors and organically askew lines of those painters' landscapes may appear before your mind's eye. But unless you have a specia...

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my upcoming book website from @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/R/Revo...

Revolutionary Poetics

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🙏🏾

Dr. Kim McMillon (Arthouseflower)@arthouseflower.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This sounds wonderful. I will be sure to pick up a copy.

New paper w/ @teddyroland.bsky.social on "How fiction powers generative AI systems." We designed a computational experiment to test the impact of the vast amount of fiction in LLM training data on how LLMs communicate, w/ implications for both AI design + literary theory. arxiv.org/abs/2603.01220

Generative AI & Fictionality: How Novels Power Large Language Models

Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...

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One more for International Women’s Day— a short piece I wrote on Billie Holiday’s importance to the Black Arts Movement www.aaihs.org/billie-holid...

Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement - AAIHS

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of the era, calls “the cultural wing of the Black Power movement...

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I want to promote my book more on this site, but I have two hurdles. 1. I need an actual strategy. 2. I don't to annoy anyone/come off as a shill. The first issue can be solved with research. I'm not sure about the second one. 😅 #writing #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky