Song of Solomon With civil war looming on

With civil war looming on the horizon

The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning “1619 Project” issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative

she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses

Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists

Song of Solomon With civil war looming onMilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his familys origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.