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Five days before Americans go to the polls, two leading writers/journalists with both local and national perspective – best-selling author and...

Les Payne’s new biography of Malcolm X already has made waves, revealing a clandestine meeting between the incendiary civil rights activist and an...

Alice Randall, seen widely as one of the most significant voices in contemporary African American fiction, was born in Detroit and can attes...

Science has always been interwoven in our daily lives but perhaps never as noticeably – and for some, uncomfortably – as it is amid our struggles n...

From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For a...

For more than a century – until 1999 – an old Louisiana sugar plantation beside the Mississippi River held a painful secret. Locals knew it as Carv...

Stephanie Powell Watts' first novel is a story about the things in our past that haunt us, that continue to call and constrain us from movin...

A lot of Black kids, Gabriel Bump says, are just trying to live their lives – fall in love, go to school, not do their homework –...

In a discussion of his new, carefully researched book Tombstone, best-selling author Tom Clavin revisits Tu...

The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...