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Callaloo 43.2 features essays, interviews, poetry, photography, and reviews from over 30 contemporary Black writers and artists! Callaloo 43.2 is a general issue with a special section paying homage to bell hooks, and commemorating the first bell hooks Symposium at Berea College.

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Callaloo is proud to announce the appointment of six new Genre Editors: Tyree Daye (Co-Poetry Editor), Safia Elhillo (Co-Poetry Editor), Claire Jiménez (Co-Fiction Editor), Kei Miller (Co-Fiction Editor), Keenan Norris (Nonfiction).

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Founding Callaloo

Dr. Charles H. Rowell founded Callaloo in 1976 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With its emphasis on critical studies of the arts and humanities, as well as creative writing, Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide.

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"I, like you, come from a people who have fought — and continue to fight — in a long struggle. I know that we must not merely survive; we must triumph. The ancestors do not expect anything less."

- Dr. Charles H. Rowell