Category Archives: Writing
Black Writers Picture Themselves – Part 1
It all began some time in the early 60’s at New York’s famous club The Village Vanguard. Burt Britton was tending bar, subbing for a friend, and one customer kept asking for more. It was Norman Mailer. Britton tried to … Continue reading
How the Other Third Lives
There’s much more on the so-called “Third World” today, though it’s still mostly out of sight, out of mind for most Americans, except for its association with terrorism and, currently, as a place where all those “sh*t hole countries” are. … Continue reading
Self-Portraits of the Artists
On September 18, 2009, Michael Miller wrote an article for New York Arts: An International Journal for the Arts, on the occasion of the Burt Britton Collection coming up for auction at 2:00 p.m. in New York City at Bloomsbury … Continue reading