28 Stories You Can Read Online for Black History Month – Chicago Review of Books

28 Stories You Can Read Online for Black History Month – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] 2020 was a year full of reckonings. For the publishing industry, it meant coming face to face with its continued failures to address a lack of diversity in their companies, and in their slates of authors. According to an Opinion column published in the New York Times entitled “Just How White is the Book … Read more

The Multitudes and Multiverse of “Black Futures”

The Multitudes and Multiverse of “Black Futures”

[ad_1] In the forward to Black Futures—this eclectic anthology of Black imagination and achievement—co-editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham share its central question: “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?” Of course, that “right now” is necessarily a misnomer, because the world has changed, is changing, from the time this project … Read more