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Former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey began her talk at Kent State University by claiming kinship with the audience. “I…

James Brown. John Brown’s raid. Michael Brown. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. These subjects braid through Kevin Young’s…

At 87, Toni Morrison is a direct woman. The Nobel laureate in literature has long contemplated her legacy, and the…

With Gateway to the Moon, writer Mary Morris casts a new spell drawing water from some of her favorite wells. Her…

Boston-based filmmaker Adam Mazo is quick to admit that he knew little about Native populations growing up in Minnesota. He’s…

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Marlon James, a 2015 Anisfield-Wolf honoree, made…

His writing emphasizes the radical mystery of nature, and he believes that ‘the highest human purpose is to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.’

In its three sections, the reader finds prose memoir and poems in historical persona, including the voice of Jim Limber, the mixed-race son whom Jefferson Davis adopted during the last year of the Civil War.

Growing up in DeLisle, Mississippi has influenced me in many ways. Growing up here taught me to appreciate beauty, the beauty of the bayous and of the forests and of the Gulf. Growing up in this community taught me to appreciate storytelling, taught me to appreciate language.

The word “bunk” itself comes from politics, sourced to a congressional debate over the Missouri Compromise and slavery. Young connects the timing of the development of our modern notion of race—itself a falsehood—with the coining of the word ‘hoax.’

Matthew Desmond thinks America can’t see itself clearly. “We’re the richest democracy with the worst poverty. There’s not another advanced…

The thrill of writing as clear as water ran through this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, bookended by the…

Can the United States transition “from being an occupier to being a neighbor”? So asks gkisedtanamoogk, a Native man living…

Jill Lepore is restless. The Harvard historian prefers to walk while she thinks, and stand when she talks.  And so…

Leila Chatti, a poet who grew up in Michigan, will be the first Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Editing, beginning…

As the #MeToo movement surges on, elevating the national conversation around sexual assault and gender inequality, Professor Heather Shotton believes…

In December, a suburban Houston school district yanked copies of the young-adult novel “The Hate U Give” from all 25…

Anisfield-Wolf poet Elizabeth Alexander will be the next president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, becoming the first woman to…

Nikole Hannah-Jones has no interest in frittering anyone’s time. “You would never hear me use the word ‘diversity’ except to…