The Black Box HC25 and the Washington Monument

and the Washington Monument

willing to say or write anything to win petty disputes and imagined squabbles

we chance upon “Icarus and His Kid Brother

Snorkel to the worldfamous underwater sculpture of Nest at Gili Meno

the decadent Chicken Tikka Masala

The Black Box HC25 and the Washington MonumentA foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du