In February, as we do annually, LARB marked Black History Month with a number of articles on African-American culture, ranging from interviews with groundbreaking poets, novelists, and scholars like Vievee Francis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Tayari Jones, to reviews of newly published and republished works by modern masters like Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, to essays on the legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, the subject of a new documentary, and on the ever-pressing questions of social and racial justice. — LARB Editorial
The Monthly Digest: March 2018
Fly as Hell: An Interview with Greg Tate
Leah Mirakhor interviews author, musician, and cultural critic Greg Tate.
The Task of the Thoughtful
Sam Huber on "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart" and Hansberry's oft-misrepresented legacy.
Indicting the System
A memoir from the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.
A Theory of Injustice for Truly Disadvantaged Blacks
What duties do black citizens owe to a biased “justice” system?
This Is My Name: A Conversation with Vievee Francis
Nomi Stone interviews Vievee Francis.
No Strangers Here
Refusing polarized narratives, Toni Morrison's "The Origin of Others" takes up the nebulous task of understanding what it is to estrange or make familiar.
In Conversation: On Love, Art, and a New Vision of Liberated Black Womanhood in “An American Marriage”
Eisa Nefertari Ulen interviews Tayari Jones, author of "An American Marriage."
Injustice and Intimacy in Tayari Jones’s “An American Marriage”
Tina McElroy Ansa reviews Tayari Jones's new novel.
The Terror Is Constant: On Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s “Nothing Personal”
A collaboration between two 20th-century greats.
We Stay in Love with Our Freedom: A Conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Joy KMT interviews poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs about her new book, "Spill."
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