Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration “Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies,” released just before Nikki Giovanni’s ...

By Nehru OdehProfessor Niyi Osundare is a man of many parts. He defies a single description too. Many describe him as a multiple award-winning poet, writer, academic, activist, scholar, essayist, ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...

What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

All is set for the 6th Providus Bank World Poetry Day celebration which is set to hold on Friday March 21, in Lagos.

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Canadian artist Alan Belcher has pulled out of a show at the Buffalo nonprofit Hallwalls over Trump's annexation threats.

Black history was celebrated in the North Allegheny School District with a full day of activities March 6 at Ingomar Middle ...

Exeter LitFest aims to shine a spotlight on local talent in the Exeter area, as well as bring in featured authors and poets.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free pi day pie potluck, comedy against cancer, Mobius performance art called “Slay,” Ukrainian folk-rock, a St. Patrick’s fun ...