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Claudia Rankine: ‘The culture hasn’t wanted us to sit in a room together and talk’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoINTERVIEW: Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ has been one of the most influential works...
Claudia Rankine shares discovery that gave her compassion for her mother
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoClaudia Rankine has opened up about learning that she was conceived as a “product of rape” and how...
20 Black poets to know this National Black Poetry Day
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEvery year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more...
Freedom Papers: 6 books to inspire on this Independence Day
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass famously asked during an...
Candice Carty-Williams on Samantha Irby, 'Citizen,' and the Book That She Read in One Sitting
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWelcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads....
Shirley Jo Finney, trailblazing Black director, dies after cancer battle
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFinney spent decades directing drama plays, including Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till,”...
The best poetry books of 2023
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTroublant, phasmid, gadje, plumbous, filsket, caravel, birl… Fran Lock must swallow dictionaries the way her alter ego does meat in Hyena! (Poetry Bus,...
Family-owned Tacoma bookstore marks Black History Month with readings, community events
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month, and some Washingtonians may be looking for books about Black...
Shirley Jo Finney, actress and theater director who championed Black works, dies at 74
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoShirley Jo Finney in 1999 on the set of "Flyin' West" at the Pasadena Playhouse. The director and...
Shirley Jo Finney, Theater Director and ‘Wilma’ Star, Dies at 74
Variety via Yahoo News· 8 months agoShirley Jo Finney, a theater director and actor known for the 1975 TV biopic “Wilma,” died on Oct....