Dr. Amy Tillerson-Brown, a professor of history at Mary Baldwin University, met Nikki Giovanni as a VTech undergrad in 1991.

The 56th NAACP Image Awards nominees are out! Watch live on February 22, 2025, at 8 PM ET/PT on BET and CBS from Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, announced today the establishment of Storehouse Voices™, a ...

The City of Newark has just announced that it is accepting applications for its inaugural Poet Laureate for a 2-year term ...

Ayo Edebiri lands 5 NAACP Image Awards nods; Cynthia Erivo, Keke Palmer, Kendrick Lamar, Kevin Hart & Shannon Sharpe vie for ...

Nebraska’s next state poet is a fixture around poetry slams and political events in the state’s largest city, having spoken ...

Arts, dedicated to African diasporic performance, now has its own space to support work like the choreographer André ...

Now, she is back in the classroom, but she also has been helping community groups develop their own Black history programs outside of the public school system. “I wish, obviously, all kids were ...

At the time, I thought poetry was reserved for uniquely talented individuals, a belief that often silenced my voice. I would ...

The acclaimed Kronos Quartet joins Grammy Award-winning choral ensemble Tonality to perform At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You, a rhapsodic modern day song cycle spun from the skin of history ...