having penned 11 novels, plus several children’s books and essay collections. Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was a Black American author, poet and civil rights activist best known for “I Know Why ...

African-American literary circles around this country may be singing the praises of such contemporary authors as E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey and Omar Tyree, but black Houstonians have their ...

(JTA) — Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley received one of the National Book Foundation’s highest honors on Wednesday night: the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

wildly entertaining portrait of Jessie Vincent Grandier and the striving African American middle class that shaped him in the 1960s. The book is also a raucous tale of a Black man navigating white ...

New Works by Nashville Artists Omari Booker, Lakesha Calvin, and Dayo Johnson Join Dark Testament at Vanderbilt Dark ...

Iconic Canadian writer Lawrence Hill says a London District Catholic school board ban on teaching his and other Black writers’ books containing the N-word will essentially erase their work from ...