Amina Gautier: Brooklyn Native, Rising Literary Star, Future Toni Morrison
Two African-Americans have won the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Brooklyn native Amina Gautier is one of them.
View Article10 Black Novels Every Literate Person Should Read
These 10 classic novels capture the zeitgeist of the times chronicled, while elevating the lives of Black men and women all over the globe into works of art. Everyone should read them.
View ArticleThe 10 Best Books About Jim Crow & the Great Migration
If you're like most readers, you know a bit about these pivotal eras of black history, but not quite enough to be a resource. Here are some books to help you learn more.
View ArticleA Poets Reunion: 20 of Brooklyn’s Best Poets Remember the ’90s
The '90s poetry scene, laden with promise, talent, and camaraderie has been displaced by motherhood, mortgages, and tenure. But for a moment last week it came alive again.
View ArticleWhy I Wrote My Novel “The Long Song”
I wanted to put back in the voices of everyday life for black Jamaicans that are so silent in the record.
View ArticleCelebrating 75 Years of “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Last week, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez and Ruby Dee sat down to talk about the meaning of the celebrated book and to read some selections from it.
View ArticleBlack Author Wins European Union Prize for Literature
The son of a Congolese father and a Czech mother, he won the prize for his debut novel 'Love Letter in Cuneiform Script.'
View ArticleTHREE African-Americans Win 2012 Pulitzer Prizes
A lot of us celebrated Manning Marable's win yesterday. But some of us forgot to acknowledge the other black 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners.
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