Print/Culture/Art,” a symposium that encouraged scholars to come together to explore the question, “What is a black book?” The symposium, which took place April 26-27 in Morris Library and Memorial ...

Coronavirus fallout: Inside historic black bookstores' fight for survival ... and Become a Good Ancestor” was in the middle of a new printing for the book when demand hit.

Juneteenth commemorates the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state were free. Even though the ...

Women read more books than men, and college educated Black women read more (print and e-readers) than all groups. The response to this revealing detail ran the gamut from proud validation of Black ...

when college courses in Black American literature were rare; when Zora Neale Hurston’s novels were out of print and Toni Morrison was a book editor with one novel to her name, the job of shaping ...