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‘There’s a lot of James Baldwin in this show’: Glenn Ligon and identity politics

In a show at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum, the leading US artist highlights how identity, culture and history in art is contingent on who is doing the looking

The Guardian - UK

What James Earl Jones can teach us about activism and art in times of crisis

The death of James Earl Jones has forced me to consider the end of an era.

The Conversation

Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death

The novelist’s final work, The Life of Herod the Great, will be published in January

The Guardian - UK

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Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.

WEKU

Best biographies of all time to add to your 2024 reading list

Intricate, academic explorations of lives and careers past

Evening Standard

Freedom Towns: A Vast but Largely Forgotten Movement of Black Self-Rule

Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.

Reason

‘I’m honoring these people’: Spike Lee on ‘filling’ the Brooklyn Museum with his creative sources

A new exhibit highlights the icons who have shaped the New York film-maker’s unique style

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‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans

Florida governor’s constant attacks on the education system have led to an increasing backlash from a wide range of people

The Guardian - US

All That She Carried by Tiya Miles review – social fabric

A simple cloth sack brings to life generations of enslaved women and reminds us of the enduring power of love

The Guardian - UK

"If Pseudonyms, Then What Kind?"

You can read the PDF here and the text here; here are the opening sections: Writers may have their noms de plume; revolutionaries may have noms de guerre. Here, though, we will speak of (to coin a phrase) the noms de litige, and ask: When pseudonymous litigation is allowed, what…

Reason

A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The Guardian - UK

Developer drops land purchase in historically Black town

A developer has dropped plans to purchase a 100-acre property from the local school system in a historically Black town in Florida following public outcry that the deal threatened the cultural heritage of the community made famous by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston

The Independent UK

Thank you, white man down in Florida

"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god"

Salon

Residents of historically Black town sue to stop land sale

One of the first historically Black towns in the U.S. is suing the local school board to stop the sale of land that is tied up with Florida’s legacy of racial segregation and the state's fast-paced growth nowadays

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Film explores descendants of last known U.S. slave ship

The Netflix film "Descendant" is backed by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions.

Salon

My family's history through dumplings

A miller’s granddaughter from Atlanta finds her Southern heritage in the story of her family brand

ABC News

Descendant: Netflix documentary talks to the descendants of the last slave ship to traffic Africans to the US, the Clotilda

Descendant, on Netflix, reveals the story of the Clotilda: the last to transport African slaves to America, in 1860, and in contravention of the law. It was sunk to hide the evidence.

The Guardian - UK

In Search of Us by Lucy Moore review – the first anthropologists, warts and all

The eccentric adventures, academic insights and many prejudices of 12 pioneering scholars

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Reason

Zora Neale Hurston's Inconvenient Individualism

The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.

Reason

The 1619 Project Unrepentantly Pushes Junk History

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

The Guardian - UK

You Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston review – fearless and dazzling essays

The pioneering African American writer’s nonfiction pieces have a power, depth and courage that still resonate more than 60 years after her death

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