Today, we learn how Black History Month began, and why it's still relevant. Then, the powerful poetry of Ashia Ajani. And, a new season of Uncuffed starts with a view from the outside.

For decades he has had a quiet influence on the South African poetry scene. His impulse to publish emerged from a place of need and outrage that some of the talented young black poets he was ...

Critics slammed New York Magazine for cropping black people out of a photo of a ... The cover was cropped to the center of a picture that was published in full online, and we believe both the ...

The Black co-host of the pictured event is calling it "insane" that he was removed from the picture of the event in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Trump's inauguration. By Kevin Dolak New York ...

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was written in response to the spoken-word piece "When the Revolution Comes" by the Black Poets, whose track begins with "When the revolution comes ...

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" was written in response to the spoken-word piece "When the Revolution Comes" by the Black Poets, whose track begins with "When the revolution comes, some of us ...