One of my favorite poems of Dunbar’s is “We Wear the Mask,” which beautifully portrays the weight that many Black people carry as they flow in “double consciousness” as a means of ...

Black History Month traces back to 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. In that pivotal year, Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland founded ...

Atlanta-based poet and artist W.J. Lofton ‘s third collection of poetry, “boy maybe,” includes 51 poems that take his readers on an emotional roller coaster exploring grief, love, police brutality and ...

Audre Lorde (1934-1992), a Black feminist and poet who wrote “The Cancer Journals,” about ... of the earth had to be understood first of all to put the place of Black people, and everyone else for ...

Atlanta author and bookseller Katie Mitchell likes to tell an identity-defining story about her childhood that often pleasantly shocks listeners.

Poets from the San Diego community came together for an inspiring virtual evening hosted by Counselor Judy Sundayo and ...

In appointing 51-year-old Poet Blanco, Venezuela’s Novelist-President Rómulo Gallegos knew that he had laid his hand on a man who had the confidence of Venezuela’s common people. Blanco ...