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Zora Neale Hurston helped create 1st mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a painted white one
According to Open Culture, anthropologist and celebrated writer Zora Neale Hurston helped to create the first mass-produced Black doll that wasn’t just a white doll painted brown. In the 1940’s, the now famous doll test by Kenneth and Mamie Brown was able to find that young Black children consistently picked dolls with lighter skin colors. […]
Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade
Nearly 90 years after it was first written, Zora Neale Hurston’s series of interviews with one of the last Africans brought to America from the Atlantic slave trade has arrived in bookstores across the country. Barracoon is introduced rather fittingly by Alice Walker, the woman whom we can thank for a revitalized interest and scholarship […]
New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018
The iconic and legendary literary figure Zora Neale Hurston does not need to give us any more material to add to her legacy, but Harper Collins has announced that she actually had an unpublished work completed before her death. Barracoon tells the story of the last known person to survive the transatlantic slave trade, a […]
Google ‘doogle’ honors birthday of Zora Neale Hurston
Today’s Google Doogle honors the birthday of one the most intriguing black women of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston, who was born on this day in 1891, was a writer and anthropologist who did incredibly important work in the American South and throughout the Caribbean. Her work has become a staple in […]
The Tea Party’s Uber-Racist ‘Obama Phone’ Ad, And The Black Man Behind It
A new political ad, brought to you by The Tea Party Victory Fund and currently running in white Ohio counties, definitely ranks up there amongst the most racist ads we’ve ever seen. What’s even more maddening, the creator of the ad is former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell; a black man.
Cultural Voyuerism: or Why We Love to Facebook Stalk
Suddenly, as I’m walking down the street, I feel 50 curious eyes on the back of my neck. As I turn around to figure out where that creepy feeling could possibly be coming from, I found myself face to face with a double-decker bus filled with white tourists.
Print Never Left: Black Writers on Archiving and Self-Published Print Media
by Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield Social media is currently flooded with messages from people encouraging others online to “get into print media” or “go analog,” while simultaneously bemoaning the loss of politically aware print media that centered marginalized voices—RIP Bitch Media—and a dearth of media that represent our experiences. However, for Black artists, writers and […]
We need LGBTQ history in schools because the queerness of Black icons has always been obscured
We’ve already been taught LGBTQ history. Unfortunately, too many of us don’t even know that we have been. We’ve already heard countless lectures about icons who happened to be queer—learned about their lives and work, read their words, recited their speeches, seen them remembered through art and poetry, and heralded them as some of the […]
Reclaiming our bodies through Black erotica
by Donnie Moreland Literarily, the words Black and erotic are dissonent. A by product of what would become synonymous with talk about sex, in the public domain, for Black folk—sin, depravity, immorality, etc. Though canonically scattered, some Black folk do dabble in erotic fiction. A previous romantic partner of mine introduced me to Zane—the most […]
What I learned from studying my Black mother’s pedagogy of love
Editor’s Note: April is Black Women’s History Month. Throughout this month, Black Youth Project is celebrating Black women. This month is also National Minority Health Month, Autism Awareness Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Child Abuse Prevention Month. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. by Donnie Moreland […]
Romance is not the only type of Black love that matters
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within…” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Black love is important. Some call it revolutionary. There are an abundance of art projects and essays which make that argument and explain why Black love matters—be it because marriage […]
#EbonyOwes agreement: Black writers’ and union diligence reverses magazine’s economic abuse
People with more bargaining power getting over on people with less status remains too prevalent in the workplace. Apparently, some people believe that today’s professionals, who often work remotely and via technology, are not entitled to the contractual stability of timely pay despite their timely production. This individual versus industry tension bears itself out in curious ways.