African Diasporans are not only not "post-black," we remain audacious enough to wonder who dreamed up the term in the first place. I hope this collection of articles, essays, and education blueprints will remind readers that "black culture" is not a sentimental tag line: there is a substantive prize to be realized and cherished. The site is dedicated to devotees who champion the study of black art and history, as well as to the academics, artists, curators, and writers who harness imagination and swag to examine the legacy, and then tell a multicultural world who they think we are. 

"One of our oldest and most cultural of American magazines once, in turning down a story of mine--

which they had a perfect right to turn down on literary grounds--wrote me a quaint little note with it.

The editor said, 'We believe our readers still read for pleasure.'"  

Langston Hughes