Risher’s “Room Swept Home” is steeped in Virginia and familial history. It considers the challenges faced by two of her ...

Risher’s “Room Swept Home” is steeped in Virginia and familial history. It considers the challenges faced by two of her grandmothers.

Price’s poetry collections — “Blood Flow” and “Wise Blood,” among others — earned national honors, including the William Meredith Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He called his ...

Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of the civil rights leader still resonates on the 100th anniversary of his ...

But even the most jaded among us never forget our earliest, purest experiences of young love – when we were sentient raw nerves myopic to adult concerns who’d give every dollar of our minimum wage ...

Miami native and historian Edda L. Fields-Black has won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book "Combee: Harriet Tubman, ...