A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

Since reading the first volume of Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez’s Absolute Martian Manhunter, I knew I wanted to pick up the second…

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

“Damnit Frank, you don’t want me to find you, do you?” I asked this question multiple times as I walked amongst the five million…

Over the past year, I have seen various posts on social media with panels from Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez’s Absolute Martian…

During our tour of Divis Towers and Falls Road in Belfast, I noticed a piece of street art on one side of the towers that has stuck with…

Jean Jacob self-portait. Photograph by the author. During my time in Paris so far, I’ve been trying to go to a lot of the free museums and memorials. This past week, I went to the Mémorial de la Shoah and to the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), which I thought was free based on information I found, but it actually costs €13.

Last month, after rereading William Garnder Smith’s The Stone Face for my current research project, I wrote about how reading the novel…

This collection comes out of a partnership with historian Keri Leigh Merritt, whose biography An Inconvenient Woman recovers the story of Lillian Smith, a white Southern writer who spent her life figh...

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The outside of Les Deux Magots in March 2019. Photo by the author. I visited Paris for the first time back in the spring of 2019. During that trip, I only had, basically, a day and a half to wander around the city. I went to the Auguste Rodin museum, the Musée d’Orsay, and Cimetière du Montparnasse. As well, I walked to various sites where I knew that expatriate writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright gathered and wrote.

As I continue rereading Frank Yerby’s Benton’s Row (1954), the more I have a desire to teach it because Yerby does so much under the guise…

Whenever I go to a used bookstore, I always check to see if they have any books by Frank Yerby, mainly because I research his work and I…

One of the things that frustrates me about living in Paris for a set amount of time is that I can’t buy all of the books that I want to…

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I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky Could see every farm and every town I could see all the people in this whole wide world…

Sixty Years Later: Birmingham and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom The following is a speech I delivered at the closing reception for an exhibition of photographer Bud Lee’s work at the …

Historian Keri Leigh Merritt joins the conversation around An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America, her biography of Georgia writer a...

Chaïm Soutine When we lived in Bergen, Norway, I would occasionally go to the KODE Art Museums to see pieces by Edvard Munch and other Norwegian artists. During one of those visits, I encountered the work of Nikolai Astrup, a modernist painter from Kalvåg. Walking through the galleries, I came upon his 1920 painting entitled Marsmorgen (March Morning). This work stopped me because it depicts a tree, with human-like characteristics, reaching its branches to the sky, as if stretching from a long winter slumber.

I’ve been in Paris, at this point, for a little over two months, and during that time I’ve travelled outside of the city almost every…

While doing research on the massacre of around 200 Algerians in October 1961 and William Gardner Smith’s novel The Stone Face, which…

Bergen and Mico. Photo by the author’s son. When I initially read Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow earlier this year, I thoroughly enjoyed its depth and complexity on various levels, so I was very excited to see Craig Gillespie’s film based on the comic. I don’t want to get into the controversy surrounding the ways that the adaptation departs from the originial text, which you can find online if you want; instead, I want to take the conversation in a different direction, focusing on Kara Zor-El’s relationship with her dog Krypto in the film.

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Since I am in Paris for this semester, I am doing a couple of asynchronous courses online. One of those is my “Who is the Black Panther?”…

Emery have released their tenth album ‘Styrofoam’ and premiered a new music video for “Slurry” to celebrate its arrival.

It’s June, and that means that we are almost halfway through 2026. It also means that it’s time for me to share some of the books I’ve been reading this year. To this point, I have read about seventy five books. That puts me halfway to my goal of one hundred and fifty books for the year. As usual, I rotate my reading, moving from fiction to nonfiction to drama to graphic novels and comics.