Boston-based writer Porsha Olayiwola is the spring artist-in-residence for Michigan State University’s Womxn of Color ...

The Clarion Ledger's Jackson Metro Student of the Week feature highlights the outstanding achievements of local high school ...

Celebrating Women's History Month with influential writers like Toni Morrison, Bell Hooks, Maya Angelou, and Sandra Cisneros.

From memoirs to sci-fi and historical fiction, we've rounded up our favorite books that feature strong Black women.

In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

The award-winning Black feminist author Toni Morrison converted to Roman Catholicism ... but I imagine both were familiar with Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "God's Grandeur," and the lines: The ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, who were foundational to the Whitney’s founding in 1930, by presenting a new ...

James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York, in 1924. He was the eldest of nine children and watched over his siblings with ...

It’s a tremendous honor to have the highly prestigious Watson Fellowship awarded to three of our students,” said Dean of the ...

Poetry Polkadot Wounds by Trinidadian-Scottish ... but as the specific engine of a certain kind of worldly knowing … Much like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Salvage will change forever ...

Hanif Abdurraqib, Anne Carson, and Hisham Matar are among the winners of the 50th annual National Book Critics Circle Awards, presented at a ceremony in Manhattan on March 20.