I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This ...

Vincent Williams will direct “The Face of Emmett Till,” which Emmett’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley and playwright David Barr III co-wrote together. 14-year-old Emmett was killed in Money ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast will soon take place at a university in Shreveport. Vincent Williams will direct “The Face of Emmett Till ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

“Clara is tenacious,” says Belinda Dixon, a longtime friend and a 1994 Staten Island Woman of Achievement. “She’s not loud, ...

Whoopi Goldberg has stunned in her latest looks showing off her 100+ pound weight loss after taking popular weight loss drug ...

When her mother died, she poured her grief into a ... A number of the poems in Nelson’s collection are historical — about Emmett Till, George Washington Carver, the Tuskegee Airmen.

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.

Why: In 1955, Emmett Till visited relatives in Money, Mississippi. The 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white woman and was kidnapped, tortured and killed. His mother insisted on an open ...

To walk into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stately brick home outside Baltimore is to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that ...

A far cry from Challengers and Call Me by Your Name, this unsettling romantic horror from director Luca Guadagnino follows ...