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All I ever really need is a good book. I’m talking physical media: hardcovers, paperbacks, whichever. Kindles and other e-readers are convenient, sure, but I’m always happy to pick up print on paper and settle in for the long haul. The best Black Friday 2023 deals Don’t miss some of the best sales and deals […]
Jenna Bush Hager’s next Read With Jenna book club pick will take you to the lush metropolis of Singapore, just as the first signs of winter to start to settle in. “The Sun Sets in Singapore” by Kehinde Fadipe, Jenna’s . . .
Jenna Bush Hager’s next Read With Jenna book club pick will take you to the lush metropolis of Singapore, just as the first signs of winter to start to settle in. “The Sun Sets in Singapore” by . . .
Scribner We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Let Us Descend” (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of Paramount Global), the latest novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, is thick with ghosts, history and searing poetry, in its dramatic story about an enslaved Black girl […]
Comment on this storyComment “Let Us Descend,” the title of Jesmyn Ward’s overwhelming new novel, alludes to Dante’s “Inferno,” but her story tells the tale of a real hell on earth. In one sense, that’s long been Ward’s setting. In “Salvage the Bones,” which . . .
Howard University’s annual International Black Writers Festival hosted African-American authors who have faced bans on their books about the history of Black America and racism to speak about the opposition to their writings. Authors Mikki Kendall and Ibram X. Kendi joined Howard professors Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss why books that tell the […]
The Evanston Arts Council recently granted $1,000 to the Shorefront Legacy Center to help pay artist fees for a 20-page coloring book. Titled Colorful Legacies: Evanston’s Local Black Historical Figures, the book will feature pictures of Black people who made a difference in Evanston’s history. Laurice Bell, executive director of Shorefront Legacy Center. Credit: Jennifer […]
NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. James E. Clyburn is working on a history book he calls a “passion project”: The story of the eight Black congressmen who represented South Carolina in the decades immediately following the Civil War. Little, Brown and Company announced Wednesday that it has a deal with Clyburn for “The First Eight,” […]
The subtle yet important side of the story we may have overlooked. The makers of Netflix’s upcoming movie, The Black Book, have released a second trailer which honours veteran production designer Pat Nebo. […]
GLITTER AND CONCRETE: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City, by Elyssa Maxx Goodman In 1967, Crystal LaBeija, the third runner-up in the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant — a national contest for drag queens — stormed offstage in protest, believing the competition had been rigged in favor of white competitors. Afterward, she […]