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YouYou have spent the last eleven weeks building your story. You developed your idea, shaped your characters, strengthened your structure,...
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There’s a specific kind of magic that happens when a book we love, one that made us underline whole paragraphs...
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For years, the dream for many writers followed a familiar script: a strong advance from a major New York publisher,...
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By Karen Rae Self-esteem ain't self-taught―and it does see color. Let's be real: society was not built with the needs of Black...
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Monday mornings often get a bad rap, but what if we could flip the script and turn them into a...
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When people talk about modern horror, certain names get repeated over and over. And yet one of the most consistent,...
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Plot is where many writers panic. They either outline every scene in advance and drain the story of surprise, or...
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Plot intimidates writers for one simple reason: structure feels like control. Some writers over-outline and drain their story of surprise....
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Avery Normal Institute and the Birth of a Black Intellectual Stronghold in Reconstruction Charleston
In 1865, as the Civil War ended and the United States entered Reconstruction, something revolutionary happened in Charleston, South Carolina....
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In conversations about arts equity, access is often treated as the finish line. Get a child into the program and...