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To Till a Field or Write a Poem? Booker T. Washington’s Legacy

Biography, Dana Zimbleman, Nonfiction / By Dana Zimbleman

In Honor of Black History Month Twenty-eight years ago, I landed my first full-time college teaching position at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Originally known as Tuskegee Institute, the school was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 to provide vocational education for southern blacks in the years after Reconstruction. Washington, born a slave in 1856, […]

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James Weldon Johnson and the Promise of America

Biography, Nonfiction / By a featured contributor

A Clarence Page article from February 18, 2023 discusses the current MAGA reaction to the performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Super Bowl pregame. Claiming that it is the Negro National Anthem and further divides our country disregards the facts. Here’s how it all began. In 1900 James Weldon Johnson—citizen of Jacksonville,

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Tim Dorsey: Vengeance Is Mine, Saith Serge Storms

Malcolm McCollum, Nonfiction / By Malcolm McCollum

In 1986, the year John D. MacDonald died, Carl Hiaasen published his first solo novel. The following year, Tim Dorsey took a reporting job with the Tampa Tribune, from which he retired in 1999 to write fiction full time. No one writing about modern-day Florida can avoid writing about crime, and no one writing about Florida

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Death Trippin’

Malcolm McCollum, Nonfiction / By Malcolm McCollum

My grandmother died during my seventh year, my first encounter with Death. I don’t remember how my mother explained it to me, but what I took in was that “death” meant that someone no longer existed. I had never considered such a possibility, and all summer long, it obsessed me. Each night after bedtime, I’d

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Gardening Is Reshaping American Culture

Nature, Nonfiction / By a featured contributor

Gardening means many things, depending on why you might want it or need it in your life. Time has shaped this art from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people will continue to find more uses for it every day, especially with the Green Revolution reshaping American culture. I would like to share with you what this

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Body Art — Is It Really?

Analysis, Nonfiction, Open Channel, Writings / By a featured contributor

. . . the man was a walking treasure gallery. This wasn’t the work of a cheap carnival tattoo man with three colors and whiskey on his breath. This was the accomplishment of a living genius, vibrant, clear, and beautiful. – Ray Bradbury …the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. – Walt

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