Onyeka Nwelue on Writing in Pidgin English
On Writing in Pidgin English, and Other Colloquial Dialects | Onyeka Nwelue | Essay
Kimbilio Fellow Rosalyn Story on the Inspiration for her New Novel SING HER NAME
How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story
Aminatta Forna on Transcending the Trauma Narrative
THERE IS A CERTAIN KIND of person who, on being introduced, says, “What’s your story?” I like that way of opening a conversation with someone you have just met. It offers people a way of presenting themselves as they might like to be seen (which may not be the same as how others see them). But […]
Kimbilio Fellow Gila Berryman on Life as an Adjunct
On the first day of class in September 2014, my undergraduate students stared at me, surprised. They were expecting an instructor who looked more conventional, more white, more male. Yet there I was, a butch-of-center Black woman, with a boyish haircut and a men’s button-down shirt, teaching their first English class at New York City […]
