Barbados: ‘Simone’s Place’ Play Explores the Freedom to Love
"Well...Sometimes. You try hard not to show it. I know they're just doing what society gives them permission to do. It's...
A Kofi Awoonor Poem: ‘We Have Found a New Land’
We Have Found a New Land by Kofi Awoonor
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award
Alexander Alter of the New York Times reports Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “Between the World...
Caribbean Literary Giant Aimé Césaire Gets His Due
Writing for The Root, Lindsay Johns discusses how a new production of A Season in the Congo helps bring a wider...
'Where Did Our Love Go' Top Ten Playlist
In case you've been hiding under a rock, Gil L. Robertson, IV recently released a book entitled, Where Did Our Love...
VIDEO: Chinua Achebe Discusses Colonization and Africa
African literary legend Chinua Achebe died last week at the age of 82. While re-reading, re-imagining and revisiting his work, we...
Dr. Maya Angelou’s Work to Become Hip-Hop Album
The Grio is reporting that excerpts from  Maya Angelou's book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will be incorporated into...
Akosua Report: Richard Wright
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly,...
Remembering Stuart Hall: Scholarship Underscored Black Experience
Google search for 'Stuart' and it's interesting what appears. Stuart Weitzman, Stuart, Florida, Stuart Little -- even a nod to the...
‘Nas: Time is Illmatic’ Documentary Explores Tragedy and Triumph
Nas: Time is Illmatic is a feature documentary that chronicles the preconditions and circumstances leading up to the making of the...