A reader gets a straight shot of Cheryl McKissack Daniel’s bravado in the title of her memoir, The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centur…| chapter16.org
Sometimes a debut shouts, insisting: “I’m new, I’m here, and I’m something to behold!” Other debuts enter the scene as if they’ve always been there…| chapter16.org
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on June 23, 2o23. *** Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World, the …| chapter16.org
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This interview originally appeared on May 15, 2023. The post has been updated with new publication and event information. *** It…| chapter16.org
Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun The poems in Stephanie Niu’s debut collection, I Would Define the Sun, revel in expansive spaces of mystery: the …| chapter16.org
The Promise Land Community in Dickson County, Tennessee, was established after the Civil War by formerly enslaved men and women who sought to establish a new l…| chapter16.org