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March 9, 2011
Recently honored by President Obama, the biographer and literary critic talks to us about the pleasures and challenges of profiling black lives.
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by Charles Molesworth onFebruary 19, 2013
Countée Cullen was an unsung artist who valued poetic tradition even while addressing the issues.
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by Hillary Crosley onSeptember 16, 2012
Claude McKay, a Harlem Renaissance writer, was the first black novelist to write a best-seller.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMarch 19, 2012
We wonder how many other kids have dealt with having to speak for the race in the classroom.
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by Abdul Ali onOctober 26, 2011
A new Penguin anthology edited by Rita Dove highlights a number of African-American poets.
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by Joshua R. Weaver onAugust 10, 2011
The Root Recommends: A new literary anthology that chronicles black gay and lesbian fiction.
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by Linda Villarosa onJuly 23, 2011
Quiet as it's kept, a number of the brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance fell along the LGBT rainbow spectrum.
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July 22, 2011
A look back at the gay, the bi-curious and the LGBT-friendly denizens of the literary movement.
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April 22, 2011
In honor of National Poetry Month, The Root's staff shares a few of our favorite stanzas from black poets, from old school (Hughes, Dunbar) to new school (Tupac).
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by Nsenga Burton onAugust 24, 2010
The fate of the home of one of America's greatest poets hangs in the balance.
