The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's son Mukoma wa Ngugi is a celebrated author and professor at Cornell Universit. Mkoma will continue the family’s literary legacy.

But it’s Charisse Brown’s eye condition, glaucoma, that diminishes her vision. Brown, 38, has worked all her adult life, with ...

Black parents tell their children about the dangers of racism with "the talk." What has it been like since George Floyd's murder? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Ryan Ross and his son, Gavin.

Word In Black Nathan Murray is the artist behind the Malcolm X bust, comissioned for the Nebraska Hall of Fame. Credit: Nathan Murray ...

The CCC led the family to travel even more. Williams spent his adolescence crisscrossing the country – Lubbock to Miami Beach ...

Born in Wilmington in the late 1880s, Richardson is known as “the Black Father of Drama ... in Washington D.C. Richardson studied poetry and writing in his youth, encouraged by playwright ...

“once, long ago, / poseidon held a fistful / of my black locs ... mini poems themselves, revealing precursors that only hint at the thematic complexities to come. In “my dad doesn’t ...

One poem, “Shopping Spree,” urged African ... This year, on Father’s Day, he organized a Black Fathers Matter motorcade. About 90 cars, decked out with balloons and signs, cruised ...

Former Irish Times journalist Patrick Smyth write about his mother, the distinguished writer Jennifer Johnston, who died this week, and her troubled relationship with her father, the playwright ...

In honor of Black History Month ... “Those Winter Sundays” is not just a poem about a son’s love for his hard-working father — it is also a profound meditation on gratitude and on the ...

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people ... My first encounter with poetry was a haiku by my father. He would say to me, “You can write ...