April is National Poetry Month, and WHQR arts reporter Demia Avery spoke with poet, singer, and activist Maylaynee Cooper, ...

On their third album together, the theorist-poet and the bassist-composer go beyond music towards a total reconsideration of ...

Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi, as well as “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.

At a gathering in the Broadway theater renamed to honor the star, speakers including Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad ...

He gained national notoriety in the wake of George Floyd’s murder when he painted ... There’s also an accompanying poem. The Guardian of Light by Jorie Engstrom Credit: MinnPost photo ...

President Trump has ordered monuments removed or changed for "ideological" reasons to be restored. How will this affect Florida's Confederate statues?

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

after the murder of George Floyd, it really felt to me like the future was starting.” We spoke with Smith about why they’ve been crying a lot, about leaving one lasting poem and about Hughes ...

After George Floyd's murder, the sign in front of the ancient ... It's now James Weldon Johnson Park, after poet, diplomat, attorney and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson.

The artist has lived through joyous moments in history too—two days before the Challenger explosion, the Bears won their ...

Ironically, the order also seeks a federal review of Confederate statues and monuments that were taken down in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd murder ... an acclaimed poet who was named director ...