Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

Black authors around the world are taking literary genres to new heights, and many of them started right here in the Bay. State of play: Axios asked the team at the San Francisco Public Library's ...

Sharyn Anderson-Campbell and Tiera Sprauve offer uplifting stories that celebrate self-acceptance and mental health.

Fantasy-romance books, like Onyx Storm, are full of "shadow daddies." Not familiar with the character type? Learn more about ...

Jordan Boys and Girls Club on the Near West Side, the annual Black Child Book Fair brought community members together to promote literacy and Black authors ... women just to be proud of the skin ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Years later, The Black Lives Matter movement inspired Lee to write the children's book she wanted so badly growing up. She recruited her best friend Megan Barr to hand paint the illustrations, and ...

This is tricky territory, and Sittenfeld handles it with nuance and aplomb. Jill is at first in disbelief that anyone — especially those close to her — might misinterpret her so egregiously. But ...

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The Rev. Peggy Pugh remembers growing up in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood in the early 1970s, watching her mother dress for church in pearl necklaces and Avon makeup. But it wasn’t just the beauty of ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” -- celebrate the singer-songwriter and Kennedy Center honoree ...

The author spoke with two ... too little contrast between the skin pigment and the hair pigment for the laser to be effective. Because African American women suffer from ingrown hair on the ...