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SENDAI, Japan — Kotaro Isaka, one of Japan’s most popular crime thriller writers, is a self-described homebody. He rarely leaves Sendai, the city in northeast Japan where he lives, and many of his books are set there. Yet when his 2010 novel “Maria Beetle” was adapted into “Bullet Train,” a Hollywood action film starring Brad […]
Placeholder while article actions load To see how a moment turned into a movement you just have to flip through the pages of Bellen Woodard’s new book. Written against colorful illustrations, the story takes readers back to when the Northern Virginia girl was 8 and a classmate asked if she could hand him the “skin-colored […]
A group of women at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Germantown played a key role in Camika Royal’s upbringing. They shared their experiences and memories, and later helped Royal and her sister with college applications. Royal, now an associate professor of urban education at Loyola University Maryland, remembers these women — some of whom were […]
Racism in education should be treated as a safeguarding issue, with anti-racist policies in all schools in England and training for staff, according to a new book. Jeffrey Boakye, a black English teacher, author and broadcaster, argues that schools are unsafe places for students marginalised by race, and warns that black children are . . […]
The U.S. Supreme Court will this fall hear challenges to the admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on their use of affirmative action. Critics say the colleges should not be allowed to consider race. For Gary Orfield, that is not what the Supreme Court should do. A […]
In recent years, the police have been called on Black people for ridiculously ordinary things — birding while Black, shopping while Black, golfing (too slowly) while Black,
What lies within the writing room of a famous fantasy novelist? A crystal ball, a scrying cauldron, a small singing frog in a silver pillbox? Kelly Barnhill is such a writer, and her writing room is tucked in a smallish house smack-dab in the middle of south Minneapolis, in the dramatic water-laced bit where Lake […]
Greg Tate, in 2016. Nisha Sondhe/Duke University Press hide caption toggle caption Nisha Sondhe/Duke University Press Greg Tate, in 2016. Nisha Sondhe/Duke University Press Greg Tate, the essential music writer, cultural critic and journalist, has died. He was 64. The news was confirmed by a spokesperson at Duke University Press, his publisher. No further details […]
On 4 November 1981, five Black men in matching light blue shirts filed into a narrow, well-lit room on the third floor of a police station in Syracuse, New York, and turned to face a one-way mirror. On the other side, a 19-year-old white student stepped towards the glass, and tried to identify which of […]
Alice Sebold, author of the best-selling novel “The Lovely Bones,” on Tuesday apologized to a Black man who spent 16 years in prison for her 1981 rape, only to see his conviction overturned last week. “I want to say that I am truly sorry to Anthony Broadwater and I deeply regret what you have been […]