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Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon is a black Southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.
Interview Lit WorldRace

Eve Ewing: Other Means to Liberation

By Kiese Laymon October 17, 2017
The poet and sociologist’s gleefully unorthodox work on blackness.
The American South: On the Map and in the Mind Commentary Race

Hey Mama

By Kiese Laymon March 17, 2014

A black mother and her son talk about language and love in the South.

Race in America Essay RaceUSA

You Are The Second Person

By Kiese Laymon June 17, 2013

You wondered out loud what writing “multiculturally” actually meant and what kind of black man would write the word “bro” in an email.

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