Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about ...

Its in response to the Waterloo Community School District withdrawing from the University of Northern Iowa’s African American read-in, which is a nearly 20 year tradition. Four Black children’s book ...

The exhibit highlights Wheatley’s role in African-American literature shown with meeting minutes for the “Book Lovers Club” — an African ... but also to tell her story. A series of letters from ...