Junauda Petrus, the second poet laureate of Minneapolis, plans to bring poetry to barber shops, buses and community spaces while engaging youth and elders through storytelling.

The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is currently in the midst of its annual weeklong celebration of poetry as part of National ...

There’s nothing like Christmas poems to remind children to be nice, lest they end up on the ... one of the first internationally recognized Black poets, publishing dozens of poetry books in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century.

Cetonia West had a vision of opening a bookstore. This Saturday, it finally comes to fruition with the grand opening of Niche ...

For example, the music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti was an evolution of Oríkì praise poetry sung in small Yoruba ... to record some of his children’s stories onto a radiogram (a record player ...

Some have been from the village, some have been kids who were just 16 or 17 when they started and they have gone on to travel the world, some are doctors. It's so nice to be part of their lives." ...

She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry ... white and black women gave a party for her. They called her the mother of the sea. So, yes, we cripple our children, we cripple ...

Credit: Ultimo Press “When you have a parent that died quite young, it’s a bit of a black box in your mind ... accompanies the decision to have children.” In the book, Sylvie, an aged ...

I make no apology for dedicating one of my Nature Diaries to big, black beetles. They have been a source of fascination since ...

PGN spoke with Philly Black Pride's vice president Jacen Bowman about his life as a make-up artist and activist.

Emily Ratajkowski took to TikTok to blast Blue Origin’s all-women space trip, calling it “end time sh*t” in a selfie-style rant. She mocked the mission as a parody of environmental hypocrisy ...