literature

Reflecting on Patrick Chamoiseau’s ‘Slave Old Man’ and physical memories of the enslaved

Here are the nominees we’re excited to see vie for the Young People’s Literature National Book Award

The Nation magazine issues apology after backlash for publishing offensive poem from a white guy

Finalists for 30th annual Lambda Literary awards honoring LGBTQ literature announced

Lupita Nyong’o is writing a children’s book tackling colorism & self-love for little Black girls

PEN announces 2018 longlist candidates, here are the nominees of color!

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my childhood

Nnedi Okorafor penning first Marvel Comics series set in a real African city

National Book Awards finalists show that black art matters

RedBlkGrl: The Box With Books by and For Black Girls

KKK leaflets found on front lawns of residents for second time

Arizona school under fire for teaching literature that outlines the ‘benefits of slavery’

Google ‘doogle’ honors birthday of Zora Neale Hurston

Author James McBride takes home National Book Award

KKK distributes racist literature in black neighborhood

NYC Public Library System Drops $300M on Midtown Branch, While Harlem Library is Outrageously Underfunded

Revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” Stars Denzel Washington and Diahann Carroll

WATCH: Amazing Trailer for ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’

16 Year-Old Harlemite Xavier Pacheco Wins National Shakespeare Competition

Free Kindle Book: “UNASHAMED: The Process of Reconstruction””

‘Things Fall Apart’ Author Chinua Achebe Dead at 82

Student Discovers Forgotten Poem by America’s First Known Black Writer

Alice Walker Forbids Hebrew Translation of “The Color Purple”

Toni Morrison, Dolores Huerta, Bob Dylan Among Recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom

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