The biographer’s ‘Joy Goddess’ (Scribner, June) explores the life and times of her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and heiress to the Walker hair care fortune.

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

Rize Simmons is on a winning streak. The Windsor High School senior and two-time state champion of the Poetry Out Loud ...

The Obama Presidential Center has commissioned new site-specific works by the artists Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams for ...

Michael B. Jordan's twin performances lead a phenomenal cast in this story of some vampires laying siege to a juke joint in ...

Over a decade ago, Roberts and fellow literary historian and poet Dan Vera launched DC Writers’ Homes, which maps nearly 400 homes of famous DC writers, from Julia Child to Langston Hughes ... by a ...

Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an expansive eye, her writings since 2018 have covered an especially ...

It was a narrative by Langston Hughes with black-and-white photographs ... Of her own photography work, she says, "I use color for family snaps, but all my work is in black and white.

The triple threat Venn Diagram bubbles of race, class, and social identity have conspired to define us as a nation since our founding. As we sit on the eve of our Bisesquicentennial in 2026, Americans ...

He became a powerful voice against voter suppression, launching investigations in Georgia, Texas, and Kansas, as well as monitoring organizations accused of targeting voters of color ... other writers ...