Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Books have the ability to heal and transform. As the country combats politically and racially driven book bans, it only becomes more clear how truly powerful a novel can be. It can inspire a reader to ...

These eight books by Black women speak to the healing and resilience needed to survive another Trump presidency.

Performance poet Sophia Thakur has been featured ... Part of my work was about saying, “Look, we are also here, we are also black, we are also women.’ The work can be very tiring to keep ...

wrote a piece celebrating Black women in Denver who paved the way for so many others. Smith noted that her great-grandfather was also a poet, like herself. But she was raised by her grandmother ...