Staff at the Institution pick their favorite reads of the year, including riveting memoirs, fascinating true histories and fun fiction ...

Set in a near-future Cape Town, South African writer Alistair Mackay’s ... Short stories, at their best, communicate an original idea or situation with vivid detail and an efficiency of words.

Welcome to the Amsterdam News Family! I’m honored to be Amsterdam News‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me. We’ve been reporting the news of the day from a Black ...

Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He ...

Created by activist Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is observed December 26th through January 1st with each day has a significant ...

B. Bright, Possible Princess, winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award recognizing the best African-American books and writers in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children’s literature. Born in ...

I’m here to help you navigate these difficulties and discover sustainable solutions, allowing you to heal, thrive, and become your best self. Trained through the African American Child Wellness ...

YouTube, PayPal, SolarCity, epigenetic cancer therapy and intelligent Mars robots exist only because of these expats: one of them has led the transition from PCs to cloud computing; another leads ...

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

So what are the best sci-fi and fantasy novels, short stories and anthologies to add to your wishlist? We asked six scholars who specialise in African sci-fi and fantasy to pick. Jedza ...

the South Carolina Department of Education ended AP African American Studies courses state, and new restrictions on educational materials have led to several books on the topic being removed from ...

Steptoe winners receive a plaque. The Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement is presented in even years to an African American author, illustrator or author/illustrator ...