The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Women of Influence will celebrate Black History Month and honor educator Claudia B. Jones with its “Night of Prose and Poetry ...

Twenty students from Spokane-area schools will be showcasing their art in the annual Black Voices Symposium event on Monday, many of them gracing the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center stage with ...

For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ran its ...

Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation.

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Others have also banned books by Black authors that focus on race ... Parks also published numerous books, including memoirs, novels, poetry, and photographic tomes. His work can be found in ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read at UM and a historian will give insight into York, a Black enslaved member of the ...

For nonfiction, Lawrence highlighted “Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me” by Glory Edim, “Black Women Writers at Work” by Claudia Tate and “Good Woman: Poems and a ...