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To Kill a Mockingbird removed from Virginia schools for racist language

December 5, 2016African American Literature, KOLUMN ...

Accomack County has suspended Harper Lee’s novel, as well as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from classrooms and libraries after parent’s complaint.

Review: ‘Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,’ a Life Well Lived

October 21, 2016November 21, 2016African American Art, African American Literature ...

“Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” covers so much ground that it’s usually easy to forgive the filmmakers for not digging deeper. This is a documentary interested in breadth rather than depth, and on those terms it succeeds.

Texas Prisons Banned My Book About Texas Prisoners

October 8, 2016November 21, 2016African American Literature, KOLUMN ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s literary censorship policy is a national disgrace.

100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945)

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Literature, KOLUMN ...

This influential memoir of a rebellious southern boyhood vividly evokes the struggle for African American identity in the decades before civil rights

‘I Felt My Blackness Being Chipped Away Bit by Bit’

October 3, 2016November 21, 2016African American Literature, African American Lives ...

My colleague Ta-Nehisi spoke last night with French journalist Iris Deroeux about his time living in Paris and more broadly about race in France compared to the U.S.:

Beinecke Celebrates Archive of African American Arts and Letters

September 24, 2016African American History, African American Literature ...

African American literary and artistic achievements are showcased in a new exhibition, “Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75,” at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The exhibition runs Sept. 23–Dec. 10 in the library, 121 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.