When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...

Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” ...

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, ...

Volunteers with the Tucson Festival of Books share their favorite books by Black authors … many of whom will be at the ...

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ...

Alice Walker’s contributions to literature extend beyond the scope of any one novel or essay. She writes with the clarity and wisdom of someone deeply attuned to the struggles and triumphs of ...

Throughout history, Black women have faced immense challenges and systemic oppression, yet they consistently rise above ...

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

Bernard L. Herman, renowned scholar, author and professor emeritus of American material culture at the University of Delaware ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...