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, ...

Alicia Partnoy survived torture and violence as one of thousands of the 'disappeared' during Argentina’s political suppression and government violence in the 1970s. She shares advice with Californians ...

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 ...

Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...

Stars including Gwen Stefani, Barack Obama, and Robert De Niro all have Irish ancestors.

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

Dyme Ellis is a 27-year-old poet, musician and organizer with a few part-time jobs on the side. Rather than viewing their ...

The director Catherine Gund fuses work from multiple artists with archival footage and interviews to craft an exploration of ...