The event, as part of their Cultural Art series, covered the poems \u2018Shadow\u2019 and \u2018Who Asks This Thing,\u2019 and the short story \u2018Smoke, Lillies, and Jade,\u2019 each relating to Nugent\u2019s experience as one of the only openly gay authors of his era.<\/p>\n
BCC librarian Ula Gaha hosted the event as part of her individual campaign to promote the works of queer Black authors. Gaha said many authors that were contemporaries of Nugent were also queer, but few were open about their sexualities at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Black Cultural Center hosted a virtual African American read-in Monday night to highlight the work of Harlem Renaissance author Richard Bruce Nugent. The event was advertised by the BCC on their website and newsletter. However, only 2 of the scheduled 15 attendees joined the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12963,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16],"tags":[7,30,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-1670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-news","9":"tag-apie-project","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"\n