Since 1950, the Harlem Writers Guild (HWG) has nurtured and championed some of the most influential Black voices in literature and the arts. On Friday, October...
Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America. Book Review by Brenda Greene Joy-Ann Reid’s Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and The Love Story That...
Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneMy People, Five Decades of Writing About Black LivesBy Charlayne Hunter-GaultHarper Collins Publishers, 343. The speaker in Dr. Margaret T....
The Basis for the Film, American Fiction Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneErasure: A Novel by Percival EverettGraywolf Press, 265 pp. Erasure (Graywolf, 2001) by...
By Maitefa AngazaThe Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College celebrated two decades at a festive and fabulous 20th Anniversary Jubilee on October 20th! Authors,...
Minister Henry Muhammad Reflects 30 Year Later By Mary Alice MillerAs the 30th anniversary of the historic Million Man March...
by Segun ShabakaAssata Shakur’s passing last week was a bittersweet moment in that we lost a Black freedom fighter who...
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as the architect of the historic August 28,1963 March on Washington for Jobs...
Each year, the nation and the world pause to remember the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and...
Tracing Black Families Back to Slavery in Brooklyn Fern GillespieSlavery in New York City began 400 years ago in 1626...
Remembering Helene Nomsa Brath By Cinque BrathIn our community, we often celebrate the louder voices—the ones who grab the microphone,...
New York, NY, June 27, 2025 – The Abolition Commemoration Day Committee is presenting its fourth Abolition Commemoration Day in...
NEW ORLEANS – Earlier this month, Dillard University, in partnership with the City of New Orleans and University Medical Center...