New issue of Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire

Edited by award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, this upcoming, limited
issue of Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire features an
expanded visual arts section including: The work of the late painter,
Jean-Michel Basquiat, including interviews with two of the Brooklyn
Museum of Art's Basquiat exhibit curators Kellie Jones and Franklin Sirmans.
An interview with John Pinderhughes, whose powerful suite of photographs
are featured.

Compelling images by the late Cuban-American painter, Emilio Cruz,
with an accompanying essay by Paul Staiti.
A portfolio of elegant photographs of Eatonville, Florida, by Deborah Willis,
with a complementary essay by this award-winning photographer
In our literary section we feature: Fiction by Jeffrey Renard Allen, one of
his country's accomplished young novelists
Interviews with three of the worldâ greatest living writers John Edgar Wideman, Chinua Achebe, and Derek Walcott
Poetry by Terrence Hayes, Ntozake Shange, Sapphire, Meena Alexander, Patricia Spears Jones, Will Alexander, Lindiwe Mabuza, Traci Gourdine and Paul Beatty
Never before published letters between novelists John A. Williams and Chester Himes
and a critical looks at the fiction of Mr. Himes by two gifted scholars,
Norlisha Crawford and Louise Bernard "Basquiat"
Issue: $22.50/copy, includes shipping and handling for the U.S.
Canada Subscriptions: $40/year F
or additional information or to purchase a copy of Black
Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, please call New York University's
Institute of African-American Affairs at 212-998-2130.