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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — A new exhibit called “Black is Beautiful” is now showing at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-S...

Houston playwright Celeste Bedford Walker will be in El Paso this week to be honored by the Texas Institute of Letters.Walker will receive the ...

Each year in mid-September, we celebrate Banned Books Week, and each year I see a handful of people arguing that the celebration, or memorial, ...

Raven White believes that all races should see themselves represented in literature. Through her newly opened bookstore, Brown Sugar Cafe and B...

Zora Neale Hurston was one of the great provocateurs of 20th-century American letters. Active from the 1920s to the 1950s, Hurston was best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, which fascinated readers with its vivid depiction of black female sexuality. Richard Wright, the black American author of the bestselling 1940 novel Native Son, meanwhile, criticised it for its “facile sensuality”: the book, in his opinion, didn’t match the gravity of the black condition in the US.

When The New York Times set out to investigate how many current authors are people of color, there wasn’t any data to be found.

So they created a list of English fiction books published by the five major publishing houses between 1950 and 2018 and three research assistants combed through scores of interviews, biographies, and social media posts to determine race. Of the over 7,000 books in which they were able to confirm the author’s race, Black authors accounted for a mere 5% of the total.

A Profound African-American Resoluteness and Great Sense of Pride"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but bec...

Gallery-goers are now able to explore Afro-Atlantic Histories, a National Gallery of Art exhibition that explores the impact of the Atlantic slave trade and its dispersion of Black people across the globe.

The exhibition, on view since Sunday, guides the viewer through six thematic phases that intertwined more than 130 art pieces from different eras, telling different segments of the evolution of the Atlantic slave trade through various artistic mediums.