If you’ve never stopped longing for the simpler, kinder, more rational time and place that was Barack Obama’s…
OK, so let’s articulate the obvious: There will be no tents or stages at the Schomburg Literary Festival this year.…
Y’all remember Christian Cooper, the Central Park bird watcher who gave us the Watergate of viral Karen stories?…
Turn the page and get into this news! Netflix has announced it will debut Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, a new…
“This might be the most important book I’ve ever chosen for my book club,” said Oprah Winfrey of Isabel Wilkerson’s C…
Mariah Carey is a living legend we’re sure has a ton of stories to tell, and she’s going to open up about her life…
Nubia—say her name and make sure you never forget it.
Tiwa Savage, Davido and Mr. Eazi are the cover stars for Billboard’s latest special issue, which is entirely devoted…
Michelle Duster, author, educator, and the great-granddaughter of pioneering journalist and activist Ida B. Wells,…
Today, May 19, 2020 is the 95th birthday of the late historic icon El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, commonly known as…
All Boys Aren’t Blue, a “memoir-manifesto” published by Farrar Straus Giroux debuting on Tuesday, April 28.
Lorde may be gone from this Earth, but her words will continue to live on and inspire year after year.
The legacy of Kobe Bryant continues to live on. The legendary athlete, Oscar-winner and author has added another New…
It’s a rare feat to score a spot on the New York Times’ bestseller list with your first book—and even rarer to have…
Black lives matter and so do black stories.
LeVar Burton Wants to Give Us a Live-Streamed Version of His Podcast. Legal Issues Present Challenge
If you were a child at any point between 1983 and 2006 and Reading Rainbow wasn’t instrumental in kicking off your…
“No scene from African American literary history is more familiar than that of Frederick Douglass’s learning to…
Furious Styles will bring his furious style to one of the greatest stories…