For the first time, Richard Wright's 1942 novel about a wrongly accused Black man is seeing the light of day. Wright was testing the outer limits of what the white novel-reading public would have found imaginable.
Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements starting in the early 1960s.
This new publication brings the work of this astonishing novelist, a satirist and humorist of biting insight, to new audiences.
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first youth poet laureate, captivated the hearts of Americans and likely anyone else who was listening to her deliver the Inauguration poem on Wednesday. The 22-year-old became the nation’s youngest inaugural poet.
A new book invites us to revisit the world and ideas of one of our great writers, who also served, during the 20th Century, as a one of our society's outstanding voices of conscience and tribunes for justice.
Walter Mosley's incredible speech from last month's National Book Awards, receiving The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters - the first African American man to receive this award.
Ten guesses why social justice activism rarely appears in our novels and movies. In the midst of major popular uprising, where are the lists of stories that would draw us into the heads and hearts of activist characters taking on injustices they face
Ralph Ellison's letters make an excellent counterpart to Invisible Man, his great novel of 1952.
In honoring Black History Month, the author lists 10 superlative books by radical voices instrumental in cohering modern black thought.
This first novel by famed essayist Coates explores the world of slavery and abolition. The author "re-creates the world of the pre-Civil War South," says reviewer Fear, "with a journalist’s eye and ear for detail."
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