Reading Black and Random Notes (RN) articles: An Overview
Fiction
RN: Ishmael Reed as ‘Haute Couture’
04/04/2019
RN: Country Place: Ann Petry's 'White' Novel Reissued; or, Flipping the script
04/24/2019
Veronica T. Watson, editor: The Short Stories of Frank Yerby
05/14/2020
RN: In a Minor Chord: Waters Edward Turpin's "These Low Grounds" Reissued
11/24/2020
RN: New National Book Award Winner Walter Mosley's America 2008 - and 2021
02/20/2021
William Gardner Smith: The Stone Face
09/27/2021
Claude McKay: Romance in Marseille
02/19/2022
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Complete Stories
06/24/2022
Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle
12/26/2022
Poetry
Keorapetse Kgositsile: Homesoil in My Blood: A Trilogy
12/25/2018
Camille T. Dungy, editor: Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
03/04/2019
James A. Emanuel: Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989
03/27/2019
Cheryl Clarke: By My Precise Haircut
03/31/2019
RN: Quincy Troupe on Twenty-Twenty Vision; or, Tiger Woods as 'The Comeback Kid'
05/06/2019
RN: Dudley Randall and Broadside Press: 'Overlooked No More' by The New York Times
05/22/2019
RN: Rita Dove's Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry; or, Opening up the canon
07/13/2019
Margaret Walker: For My People
10/28/2019
RN: Yusef Komunyakaa 'Down Under'; or, Rereading February in Sydney
11/25/2019
Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foyle, and Tate Swindell, editors: Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
12/19/2019
Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough, editors: World'd Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins
01/20/2020
devorah major: and then we became // where river meets ocean
02/10/2020
Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki GIovanni, 1968-1998
06/16/2020
Thomas Sayers Ellis: Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
08/30/2020
Kalamu ya Salaam, editor: I Am New Orleans: 36 poets revisit Marcus Christian's definitive poem
10/13/2020
Naomi Long Madgett: You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems
02/26/2021
RN: Hope and History; or, The inaugural poetics of Amanda Gorman
04/29/2021
Kevin Young, editor: African American Poetry: 250 years of Struggle and Song
06/25/2021
RN: Effie Lee Newsome's Nature Poetry for Children Revisited
11/28/2021
RN: African American Poetry Beyond English; or, The example of Sybil Kein
02/12/2022
Haki R. Madhubuti: Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected
03/22/2022
Kalamu ya Salaam: Cosmic Deputy: poetry and context, 1968-2019
05/18/2022
E. Ethelbert Miller: How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask
10/06/2022
RN: Liberation Narratives: Nicole Mitchell and Her Black Earth Ensemble Brings Haki Madhubuti and His Poetry Back Again on CDC
01/02/2023
Carole Boston Weatherford: Birmingham, 1963
01/26/2023
Kalamu ya Salaam: Precise Tenderness: 100 Haiku
05/18/2023
Drama
Lynn Nottage: Sweat
12/26/2019
Alice Childress: Trouble in Mind
09/12/2022
Film, tv, radio
RN: A Feel-Good Film; or, Hidden Figures revealed
08/27/2019
Sonja D. Williams: Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom
09/18/2019
RN: When Melvin Van Peebles Read His Obituary; or, The passing of a pioneer
10/16/2021
The arts
The Photographs of Gordon Parks
04/05/2019
Ruth Fine, editor: The Art of Norman Lewis
06/25/2019
The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
01/28/2020
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting
03/31/2020
Jeffreen M. Hayes, editor: Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman
06/28/2020
RN: William H. Johnson in Kerteminde: A New Donation to Danish Museum
08/17/2020
Stephen C. Wicks, editor: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door
12/26/2020
Non-fiction
RN: The White Card; or, Claudia Rankine's American conversations on race and citizenship
10/05/2019
RN: Vincent O. Carter's The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind - An Exchange
07/19/2020
Barack Obama: A Promised Land
01/21/2021
Vincent O. Carter: The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind
03/30/2021
Carter G. Woodson: The Mis-education of the Negro
03/26/2023
RN: Much Ado About a Name; or, Revisiting Carter G. Woodson's The Mis-education of the Negro
09/12/2023
Literary criticism
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
04/12/2019
Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey, Jr., editors: The Black Chicago Renaissance
05/08/2019
John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C. Tracy, editors: After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown
05/28/2019
Julius E. Thompson: Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit
06/09/2019
Steven C. Tracy, editor: Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
08/08/2019
James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway, editors: Conversations with Paule Marshall
08/15/2019
John Zheng, editor: Conversations with Sterling Plumpp
11/12/2019
Horace A. Porter, editor: Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work
03/20/2020
Angela Jackson: A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
04/29/2020
Matthew Teutsch, editor: Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays
05/18/2020
Harryette Mullen: The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Essays and Interviews
09/27/2020
Carmen L. Phelps: Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
05/18/2021
Multi-genre anthologies
Margaret D. Bauer, editor: North Carolina Literary Review, Number 28, 2019: Featuring North Carolina African American Literature
09/05/2019
Charles Johnson, editor: Anthology of Black American Literature (Chicago Quaterly Review, Volume 33, 2021)
12/31/2021