I was molded from the clay soil in Deep East Texas, in the small city of Lufkin. This region has an antebellum history ...

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He had to wait until he was 55 to find success. A decade later, Arthur Jafa has become an artist whose work is shown around ...

It’s a mere 37 minutes, driving-wise, from Downtown Savannah to Jasper County, S.C., where my kinfolk go back a couple of ...

It’s made with things you already have in your cupboard.

A powerful ceremony on Thursday honored World War I veteran Renee Messelin, the first Black woman soldier to serve overseas ...

A poet laureate, whose moving message during Gov. Kathy Hochul's inauguration gained him national attention at 9 years old, is continuing to impress with a new accomplishment.

On what would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday, the Assata Shakur Memorial Committee launches a new digital archive to ...

Schoolchildren, including this columnist decades ago, were taught a twelve-line lyric poem of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, entitled, Trees, that many centenarians and nonagenarians ...

One dad is on the grill, quietly attending to his half of the family, the non-Spanish speaking Black side. DJ has his place, ...

Poet laureates in Newark and Birmingham use poetry as a tool for racial healing, storytelling, and collective understanding.

There are few names more well-known than Maya Angelou’s. As the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) reported, Angelou was a poet, dancer, singer, activist, scholar and “a world-famous author.” She ...