As long as there have been fantasy authors, there have been black fantasy authors. Yet, there is a depressingly large subset ...

The messages have become too much that, on March 21, 2025, Kaufmann with double 'n' posted on Facebook (in all caps): "PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, I AM *NOT* THE ICC LAWYER NICHOLAS KAUFMAN WHO IS ...

If you’re keeping track, you might notice that we’ve added a couple of books to our fourth annual Noteworthy list, our salute ...

New springtime books include historical fiction from World War II and the American South, an egg-related crime mystery, contemporary and futuristic fiction and sci-fi, and compelling memoirs from both ...

On Friday, March 7, the Creative Writing Club held a viewing of the movie American Fiction, along with a panel afterwards. The 2023 film centers Thelonius “Monk” Ellison, a Black author frustrated ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural significance, telling stories of survival, status and self-expression. What may ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” ...

In 2012, this list included seven white American ... male fiction and poetry fellows, and in fact has had only one since 2020. The article gives several sad examples of young white male writers ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.