Award-winning poet, novelist and professor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ponders history, race and gender in a new collection of essays and poems, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads." ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the nation’s largest archives of Black history, celebrates its ...

The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

W hen Audre Lorde released her poetry collection Coal in 1976, her status as a groundbreaking Black lesbian feminist poet was ...

NEW YORK CITY — February is Black History Month ... Park as we honor the famous poet and draw inspiration from our surroundings as we practice creating our own poetry." When: Feb. 23, 11 ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned ... Maybe I will be a shoe shine boy, says the negro who was black and dirty. But no – unluckily ...

The most famous of all Christmas poems ... became one of the first internationally recognized Black poets, publishing dozens of poetry books in his short lifetime (he died in 1906).

Singer/actress Josephine Baker and boxer Joe Louis with friends at the Knight Beat Club inside the Sir John Hotel. The photograph has a note to Clyde Killens, promoter, from Josephine Baker.

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas ... and he has a controversial sidekick, Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). Even today, some white revelers portray the figure, a dark-skinned, demonic ...

Sports-lover turned journalist, born and bred in Scotland, with a passion for football (soccer). He’s also a keen follower of NFL, NBA, golf and tennis, among others, and always has an eye on ...

Nikki Giovanni used poetry for an even higher calling than ... One of the world’s most famous African American poets, Giovanni was also an author, commentator, activist and educator who emerged ...

Her most famous poem “Nikki-Rosa”, was first published in Giovanni’s 1968 collection, Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement. The poem explores the speaker’s memories of growing up in a ...