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Additions to the Archive with Sullivan Summer
Conversations with authors, academics, readers, and thinkers committed to the preservation and expansion of our collective archive.
October 13, 2026
Inquisition for Blood
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Blac…
October 6, 2026
Strung Up
A powerful, unsettling, and unflinching exploration that forces readers to confront lynching as a devastating legacy of white childhood conditioning, …
September 29, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows
There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered …
September 22, 2026
My America
Celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American artist Langston Hughes is one of the few American writers who consistently wrote about democracy f…
September 15, 2026
The Flower Bearers
On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths’ cl…
September 8, 2026
Remembering Roots
As we approach the 50th anniversaries of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots (1976) and its landmark television adaptation (1977), journal…
September 1, 2026
Battle in the Margins
While Lexington and Concord claim significance as the sites of the American Revolution’s opening battles, New York City’s geography, population densit…
August 25, 2026
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
In 2021, the NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers made her fiction debut with The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, a magisterial epic …
August 18, 2026
When Trees Testify
The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; sycam…
August 11, 2026
My City Need Something
Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer karim brown improvises a cont…
August 4, 2026
Black Freedom
For more than 150 years, Black communities have gathered to honor freedom, resilience, and the ongoing struggle for true liberation. While Juneteenth …
July 21, 2026
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
In Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival (University …
July 14, 2026
Lift Every Voice
Captivating for both its grandeur and intimacy, Lift Every Voice (Penguin Books, 2026) explores the past’s capacity to be both a source of dread and e…
July 7, 2026
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas
Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies (University of South Carolina Press, 2026) counters romantic portrayals of…
June 30, 2026
In Praise
In 2006 poet Amanda Johnston went in search of community and, when she didn’t find what she was looking for, Amanda built her own. Today, Torch Litera…
June 23, 2026
Where Harlem Rests at the Woodlawn Cemetery
A cemetery as open-air museum? Historian and award-winning author of Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Centra…
June 16, 2026
Staging Blackface in Canada
In the early twentieth century, as variety shows flooded Canadian stages, new forms of blackface, inspired by modern forms of amusements, changed the …
June 9, 2026
The Great Mann
In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite’s invitation to the…
June 2, 2026
Something We Said
The N-word is one of the most perplexing, controversial and misunderstood words in the American lexicon. It’s a word that Elizabeth Pryor has not only…
May 26, 2026
Without Terminus
In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways structu…