The American Library Association has proclaimed Sept. 22-28 Banned Books Week to draw attention to the issue. In honor of the occasion, Random House imprint One World is hosting “Free Your Mind,” an ...

Honoring the trailblazers whose courage, innovation, and resilience left an indelible mark on history and continue to inspire ...

The immersive attraction area features everything from a replica of the convenience store in the movie "Clerks" to a butter ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...

Her lecture, inspired by the quote from Wendell Phillips in the 1845 introduction to Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American ...

Despite apprehensions that the information might endanger his freedom, in 1845 Douglass published his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." Three years ...

If Donald Harris’ account of his family history is correct, it is likely that, as was true with American abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, the Black mother in question – and Ha ...

In 2018, the Black father of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the Jamaican-born professor Donald Harris, wrote that the family was descended from white enslaver Hamilton Brown. Brown ...

In The Crisis of Narration, Byung-chul Han suggests the real harm of information is that it has displaced a more essential ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn ...