Black lives matter and so do black stories.

I’ve said for a while now that I can’t wait to read the inevitable Colin Kaepernick memoir about the trials and…

Toni Morrison’s hometown of Lorain, Ohio, passed a resolution this week declaring her birthday, Feb. 18, as Toni…

After attempting to deliver us all from evil with the beautifully written Between the World and Me, and his essay…

Toni Morrison had to figure out a way to talk to Muhammad Ali. It was the mid-’70s and at the time, she was his…

“A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are a necessity,” Toni Morrison writes in the prologue of…

Becoming, former-and-forever first lady Michelle Obama’s new book, continues to fly off shelves. Its 3 million…

“Tell me, Jonah: What good is a nurse that faints at the sight of blood?” Obadiah, a frontier-weary doctor, whined…

In these dark, cold winter months, let us take comfort in the amazing things black people are doing in literature.…

Sidney Keys III loves to read, and about six months ago he concocted a plan to start a reading club for boys his age…

Roxane Gay is not here for Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

When one thinks of 19th-century America, slavery and the Civil War come to mind. American slavery, as we know, was a…

James Baldwin is directly connected to Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in my mind, thanks to the 90-minute…