NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Morrison praised the power of literature and the “community” of writers. James Patterson told some jokes and even sang.
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Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry, was young, gifted and Black – New York Amsterdam News
Finding a female counterpart to the remarkable August Wilson is not easy, but Lorraine Hansberry comes close, and she came to mind additionally as we prepare for Malcolm X’s birthday May 19, which she shared.
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James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg – New York Amsterdam News
James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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This 23-Year-Old Nigerian Author’s Afrofuturist Novel Has Been Picked Up By Fox Studios – Okay Africa
We’ve been celebrating African women all month at OkayAfrica, and today we get to add yet another to our list!
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The Misunderstood Ghost of James Baldwin – Slate
How critics have misconstrued his influence on today’s great black nonfiction writers.
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Entrepreneur Launches First-Ever Interactive Digital Book Platform for Black Children
Donna Beasley is making history. For the first time in the publishing world, a digital-first book library has been launched to serve Black and Latino children. Kazoom Publishing
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Jerry Pinkney’s Illustrated World, An Escape from a Nation in Conflict
To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, and our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.
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UT Professor Tackles Sordid Tale of 1880s Dismemberment
University of Texas professor Kali Nicole Gross has a homicidal maniac as her muse — and that led her to write “Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America.”
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A New Movie About Bob Kaufman, a Jewish African-American Street Poet Shrouded in Myth
“And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead” does little to dispel the mystery surrounding the artist, which is why it works.
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Juneteenth: Black America’s Independence Day
“On this day 150 years ago, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves of Galveston, Texas finally received word that the Civil War was over.
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