Two books that explore the deep flaws in our health care system are top of the pile today, along with fiction set from St. Paul’s Seventh Street to Vietnam. The authors are Minnesotans or have ...

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...

Poetry memoir invites readers into “Blindian Country”; experimental work by 20 Black artists at F-O-K Studios; Alex Yang’s” Weaving the Hmong Legacy” at the Xia Gallery.

With humor and range, Rob Franklin’s novel, “Great Black Hope,” examines the complex relationship between wealth and race in ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Honoree Fanonne Jeffers about her new book Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.

In “The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health,” Dr. Rheeda Walker wants to undo the stigma associated with mental health ...

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...

Many Black women have experienced the ritual of hair straightening, whether through chemical relaxers that caused a familiar tingling sensation signaling it was time to wash the product out or get ...

The book is a celebration of spaces, past and present, where Black intellect, activism and community flourish. :: In the words of Toni Morrison: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t ...

In Knoxville, 113 books, including Push by Black author Sapphire, were pulled from schools. Wilson County removed nearly 400 books, including works by Toni Morrison, while Nashville’s public libraries ...

Since the start of June, some exciting new titles by Black authors have been released, and some really juicy ones are still to hit shelves as summer gets further underway. From exciting debuts to ...