Writing alongside Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, West was the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance. Diana Evans asks: why were her books overlooked for so long?
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The works of the Nobel Laureate who died on August 5, 2019 are a navigational compass through our own treacherous landscapes.
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Thinker, Writer, Literary Activist, Nobel Laureate
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The celebrated author and Nobel Prize winner died this week at the age of 88
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With his groundbreaking nonfiction works, Ta-Nehisi Coates emerged as our most vital public intellectual. Now, his debut novel, The Water Dancer, takes him to uncharted depths.
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Michael Schaub, NPR long string of horrors that took place at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys wasn’t a secret, but it might as well have been. Former students of the Florida reform school had spoken out for years about the brutal beatings that they endured at the hands of sadistic employees, but it wasn’t until 2012, when University […]
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Sankofa bookstore near Howard University has been a cultural hub through decades of DC history -- now it's struggling to survive the rising tide of property values.
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“She is strange. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet, LeRoi Jones, and Bertholt Brecht. She is far-out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire and The Connection.”
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Yvonne Taunton, Birmingham Times Sandra Cutts (Provided Photo). Featured Image a week of interviews in legislative offices on Capitol Hill, Sandra Cutts, a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering doctoral candidate, has been selected as one of 60 students to be a 2019 John A. Knauss Marine Policy fellow. Cutts is also one of only 14 of those […]
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“Phenomenal Woman: An Evening with Maya Angelou” will debut in 2021.
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