In its three short years of existence, Anvil magazine published several writers who would go on to achieve immense fame, ...

Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

I Am Here!” exhibition at the Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library honors Harlem Renaissance poet and ...

Filmmaker RaMell Ross may be a practitioner and admirer of visual art, but in cinema, he strives for the effect of poetry.

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

English writer and humorist P.G. "Plum" Wodehouse lived in the United States for more than 30 years before his death in 1975.

Welcome back to the Hill, my fellow reading enthusiasts! While African American history should be taught and celebrated ...

By Griffin Mancuso Photo by Griffin Mancuso | Sarai Bordeaux starts off the People’s Mic Poetry Slam calling for the audience to take care of themselves and let themselves process their emotions.

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

"If nearly a third of soon-to-be high school freshmen can’t successfully find an author’s primary message, the American K-12 ...

The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.

I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. ‘Excuse me,’ I said. ‘I thought ...