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A significant American art form, previously shunned to the margins of society, is again captivating the national public’s eyes. The comic book – a revolution popularized by such Jewish-American authors and artists as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Bill Finger and Bob Kane, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby - captivated the minds and shelves of both children and adults in their heyday, but were later delegated to a corner-space of our minds. Much as the pulp fiction and paperback romance

Masani Alexis De Veaux (1948- ) is an American writer and illustrator, and former chair of the Department of Women’s Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Born on September 24, 1948, in Harlem, De Veaux received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York Empire State College. She continued her education in creative writing at the University of Buffalo, where she attained a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. A voice for blac

Every year in November, more than 200,000 visitors from across the South and throughout the country travel to New Orleans to watch two rival HBCUs go head-to-head on the football field. More than just a game, the Bayou Classic is a week-long event celebrating historically black colleges and universities and their traditions of academic achievement and friendly competition. It features a festival, expo, parade, and other events in the lead up to Saturday afternoon, when the Gr

Literary magazines, also known as “little magazines” have been publishing experimental literature and non-conformist writings since the late 19th Century. Popular throughout the early to late-20th Century, these magazines filled the void of commercial magazine publishing with avant-garde poetry and prose that stretched the boundaries of acceptable societal and moral norms and behavior. Many literary greats, such as Ernest Hemmingway and James Joyce got their start in “little

The papers of the Dent family of New Orleans provide a significant portrait of a prominent African American family during the era of the modern civil rights movement. Amistad received the initial deposit of the papers of patriarch Albert W. Dent, and his first born son Tom Dent in 1976, with continued additions until the death of the family’s matriarch, Jessie Covington Dent, in 2001. These two collections, the Albert and Jessie Dent Papers and the Tom Dent Papers, span over