Whether there’s a Black-owned bookstore right around the corner or you need to shop online, these incredible businesses offer something you won’t find at big box retailers: carefully curated ...

In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman, among many other similar copies. The woman wore a respectable bonnet across her forehead, lost deep in thought while ...

Books have long been a cornerstone of cultural preservation and empowerment; this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of being ...

The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases. By Sarah Lyall and Alexandra Alter There’s a scene in ...

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Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...

Shaffer examines how early 20th-century African American novels captured the promise and challenges faced by Blacks migrating from the rural South to Northern cities. Published this month by the ...

Jeffrey Wright stars in "American Fiction" as a professor who writes a novel about Black life he knows is dumb — and is guaranteed to be a hit. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at ...

At one point in the alternately sweet-natured and scathing “American Fiction,” a new novel is described as a “heartbreaking and visceral debut.” The book in question, by an emerging writer played by ...

Black History Month may be coming to an end, but you can enjoy the works of Black authors, poets, and novelists all year long right here in Seattle. That's because the city is home to what some may ...

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