An author is suing Busboys & Poets, alleging that the cafe has engaged in discriminatory behavior and falsely advertised ...

In one of photographer Gaurav Bharadwaj’s works a candle sits on a wooden table, the flame has just gone out leaving a wisp of white smoke emanating in unnatural angles as if it were strokes of a pen ...

Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their ...

Contributing writer for The Prospect Michael Grasso details Princeton professor in creative writing Patricia Smith’s ...

Columnist Joe Holley looks back at the genius of Austin-born legal scholar, poet and all-round Renaissance man Charles L. Black Jr.

Black Repertory Company is bringing a powerful fusion of movement, music, and poetry to the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center this weekend by way of a legendary force in dance. On November 21 and 22, ...

Miami groups whose focus ranges from literacy to refugees, poetry to Biscayne Bay’s health, were finalists for a $25,000 award from the Elevate Prize Foundation ...

The Intentions of Thunder” includes poems from Smith’s nine collections, as well as new and previously uncollected poems that ...

A new study in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies shows that a widely accepted belief about the Black Death’s rapid spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean is not based on records or ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...