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Karen R. Long contributed to the reporting. Every evening in her four-story Brooklyn townhouse, author Jacqueline Woodson and her partner…

by Matthew Hashiguchi, documentary filmmaker  Over the past year, I’ve been asked many times about the correlation between Japanese Americans…

Marilynne Robinson – she of the incandescent, Pulitzer-winning prose – wasn’t thinking about her celebrated fiction last month, even though…

“Call soul food what it is: the edible scripture of the Black aesthetic, the culinary answer to jazz, memory food…

A visibly emotional John Lewis took to the podium at the 2016 National Book Awards to accept this year’s prize for…

What if Martin Luther King Jr woke up and asked, “What happened since I’ve been gone?” The answer is the…

Bree Newsome — the activist who brought down the Confederate flag flying outside the Columbia, S.C. capitol building in 2015 —…

Orlando Patterson, the public intellectual and Harvard University sociologist, made a deep impression on his audiences in Cleveland in September….

“America is indelibly black-ish,” sociologist Orlando Patterson asserted to the audience at Playhouse Square during this year’s awards ceremony. “Trying…

Do you remember being fifteen? Let Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson’s first adult novel in 20 years, jog your memory. In…

There are 108 tally marks on the cover of The Fire This Time, the new essay collection that brings forth…

Riders heading to downtown Cleveland on the RTA’s Red Line may have noticed quite a few more pops of color adorning…

In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…

Five winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book award in fiction are standing up to publicly, “as a matter of conscience, oppose,…

Morris is deeply interested in the tensions of home and away, which can be seen in the immigrant and Great Migration characters populating “The Jazz Palace,” both fictional and actual.

by Gary Stonum In electoral politics you must choose one candidate. In identity politics, it is often the same. As…

Edwidge Danticat began her remarks in Cleveland by drawing attention to another artist, the painter Jacob Lawrence, whose migration series…

Of the five prompts for the 2016 Martin Luther King essay contest, Case Western Reserve University senior Shadi Admadmehrabi selected…

In its second season, ABC’s “Black-ish” has hit its stride. Now comes the best evidence of its ability to create…

Marlon James begins his 2-minute video on racism with the following question: “Are you ‘non’ or are you ‘anti’?” Published…