Crossing bridges isn’t always easy — but that’s exactly what author Bonita Hampton Smith set out to do with “Dear White Woman ...

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

Scott King saw the deficit partly as a result of who was doing the telling. At one of the first conferences of King scholars, ...

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These days, female authors are publishing as many books yearly as males. In a 2023 study, “The Welfare Effect of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation: Evidence from Books ...

If you’re keeping track, you might notice that we’ve added a couple of books to our fourth annual Noteworthy list, our salute to California authors ... about a wealthy Black family in LA ...

Created by CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program, the Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation. It analyzes the ...

The rate of unemployment among women was 36,8% in the 2nd quarter of 2021 compared to 32,4% amongst men according to the official definition of unemployment. The unemployment rate among black African ...

As Women’s History Month comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on ways to honor Black women. We often see and admire them in ways that are left unspoken or that aren’t amplified nearly ...

Author L.J. Smith, who created the “Vampire Diaries” book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name and contributed to pop culture’s obsession with vampires, has died. Smith died ...