Rhetoric Lessons in Street Fiction
“Well, in being a virtuous leader, that’s where your ability to use the third liberal art of rhetoric comes into play. You must be a good...
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KG1
Oct 4, 20204 min read
From Langston Hughes to Muhammad Ali to Black Arts
Only on rereading Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea for my course on African American Autobiography did I ponder name and geography...
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KG1
Sep 26, 20203 min read
Composition and Satchel Paige
Once I was at a composition conference headquartered in downtown Nashville. Some colleagues and I, having never seen Fisk University,...
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KG1
Sep 26, 20204 min read
BIPOC
In the club of ethnic labeling, BIPOC tryna get it in. The term Black, Indigenous and People of Color is a well-meaning attempt in...
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KG1
Sep 15, 20205 min read
For Charles Rudolph Scott
I missed a good speech on September 15, 1970. The person that gave it, Chuck Scott, as we knew him, was a childhood friend, my next-door...
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KG1
Sep 1, 20202 min read
White Nationalism and Trump
It is fairly easy to see that white nationalism is largely an expression of fascist impulses. It would be hard not to when...
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KG1
Aug 27, 20202 min read
Poetry and Rhetoric
The virtuoso poet Audre Lorde opened her popular poem “Power” with the following lines: The difference between poetry and rhetoric is...
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KG1
Jul 29, 20202 min read
Laura Coates’ Linguistic Move
Amid several notable responses, CNN legal analyst Laura Coates made a great linguistic move on air the day of Attorney General Bill...
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KG1
Jul 25, 202011 min read
Black Panther and Wolf Warrior across Cultures
A small casualty of COVID-19 was my first scheduled trip to China. In anticipation of my participation in forums about culture, I became...
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KG1
Jul 22, 20203 min read
From the Barbershop to Chicken Night
Never been all that easy to get Black doctoral students through English departments. They know it and I know it. Research not needed to...
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