"Finding Your Roots," a PBS documentary series hosted by Harvard professor and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., has taken viewers on journeys exploring the ancestral histories of celebrities for ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate ...

What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber ...

The Virginia Festival of the Book will pay tribute to poet Nikki Giovanni with readings, live music and tributes from ...

“Dove’s richly imagined book,” writes Mark Doty, “has the sweep and vivid characters of a novel but it’s written with a poet’s economy and eye for exact detail.” Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of ...