Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella Fitzgerald's quip, "The only thing better than singing is more singing," would be the perfect slogan for an upcoming ...

Author Farah Jasmine Griffin, a professor of English and comparative literature and African-American studies at Columbia University, spoke with Toni Morrison about the Nobel Prize winner’s latest work ...

Books We Love is NPR's list of best reads. One of this year's picks is called "Toni At Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" by Dana A. Williams. It's a biography of Toni Morrison's time ...

Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.

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Two of America's most prominent writers of color will be in conversation with one another at the New York Public Library. You can watch it live. Tune in. Colorlines is the leading source for ...

In the summer of 2008, I was 19 years old, halfway through college, and an aspiring poet with a notebook full of earnest stanzas of questionable quality. I loved writing. I loved literature. As I ...

In her prose poem, “Toni Morrison,” Nikki Giovanni imagines cooking a “Toni Morrison stew.” Among its ingredients are the heightened contradictions that characterize her novels: An exotic mix of tears ...

Ella Fitzgerald's quip, "The only thing better than singing is more singing," would be the perfect slogan for an upcoming extravaganza where singing is the main attraction. Not one, but two concerts ...