SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2006 SE Thank you, Hortense, for making time to talk with us.
Jennifer and I are really grateful that the three of you came out on a Saturday evening. Can we …

Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of
African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? …

I say picture because these images and our memories of them are as much about the
spectacle as the sound. The recognizably black woman—singing rather than speaking—is a …

On the next day, which was the 8th of the month of August, very early in the morning, by reason
of the heat, the seamen began to make ready their boats, and to take out those captives, …

… Moslem royalty, Empress Farah Diba and Princess Yasmin Khan, my father's was as much
a tribute to the music he loved as a diminutive of Jasmine. Farah Jasmine was the name into …

You have written on a variety of subjects, including pedagogy and literary texts, and migration
and African-American literature, and different issues in feminist studies. And you have also …

… Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase" read … Griffin has spent years rooted
in the culture of Black genius … Griffin entwines memoir, history, and art while she keeps her …

Throughout his life, WEB Du Bois was an advocate for black women. However, in his article
of 1898, "The Study of the Negro Problems," he posits a model of the intellectuals, the …

… Farah Jasmine Griffin is a dazzling storyteller whose lyrical prose evokes the musical …
As much a love letter to New York as it is to the heroism of these artists, Griffin’s study is a …

All segments of the literary world—whether establishment, progressive, Black, female, or
lesbian—do not know, or at least act as if they do not know, that Black women writers and Black …