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Here is Rosebud Yellow Robe, a confident, handsome gentlewoman in early middle-age, looking off to her right, apparently indifferent to her portraitist. She wears a loose elk-skin ceremonial dress with beaded figures of cavalrymen and warriors worked in on fine sinew. It is a representation of the Battle of Little Bighorn, in which her grandfather had fought. If you were a child in New York in...

It’s odd to think that this history of artist David Edward Byrd started with a trip to the bathroom… but it did. However, this visit to the john was far removed from much of the history youre about to read. It didnt take place in the artist hatchery of 1960s Carnegie Tech (later Carnegie Mellon University), where Byrd studied. It wasnt among the grimy streets of New York, where Byrd first created...

An extended community nurtured the achievements of The Sisterhood. Many other Black feminist groups and individual intellectuals in the 1970s and early 1980s shared The Sisterhoods goals of publication and publicity for Black women writers, as well as the belief that political and social change could and should be made through culture. In this larger network of Black women literary activists, the...

There has always been a gap between the English-language author Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Yiddish writer who published under at least three pseudonyms: Yitskhok Bashevis, Yitskhok Varshavski, and D. Segal. The publication of Singers wartime writings presents one of the first attempts to close that gap. Singers Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945, the first of three...