Irma Thomas is a beloved New Orleans icon with a career that now spans sixty years. Her self-penned "Wish Someone Would Care" was a national hit in 1964, though she did not win her first Grammy until 2007 for her post-Hurricane Katrina album, After the...

Irma Thomas is a beloved New Orleans icon with a career that now spans sixty years. Her self-penned "Wish Someone Would Care" was a national hit in 1964, though she did not win her first Grammy until 2007 for her post-Hurricane Katrina album, After the...

A memoir-like rendition of Odette Casamayor's Black, female, Caribbean, and diasporic experience. At the intersection of personal experiences, collective memory, epistemological research, and the expansion of poetic knowledge, born from her bi-weekly...

A celebration of Black voices across centuries and continents. Grace of Centuries is an act of redress. Beginning with the African presence in the Bible and travelling through inheritances both collective and personal, Hope Anderson ranges from Bilali...

Blood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world. At once a site of refuge and rupture, nature emerges as both witness to generational...

Blood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural world. At once a site of refuge and rupture, nature emerges as both witness to generational...

Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice centers acts of musical creation and performance that emerge from Black experiences, affirm Black humanity, and connect to Black communities. Written for scholars, performers, and music fans, the book shows...

Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice centers acts of musical creation and performance that emerge from Black experiences, affirm Black humanity, and connect to Black communities. Written for scholars, performers, and music fans, the book shows...

In Afroalgorhythms, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro blends ancestral memory with Afrodiasporic science fiction. Arroyo Pizarro challenges the narratives we inherit and the systems, colonial and heteronormative, that govern our lives. Throughout the work, her...

Making Freedom Work tells the stories of five free women of color in antebellum New Orleans. The lives of Eulalie Mandeville, Henriette Delille, Marie Couvent, C?cille Bonille, and Marie Dolores Laveaux reveal the economic, legal, and cultural strategies...

Between 1880 and 1910, as Jim Crow's legal apparatus transformed Louisiana's complex racial landscape into a stark binary, Creole women fought to preserve their community's distinctive identity through the most ordinary acts of daily life. In their...