Featuring a new foreword by the late Nikki Giovanni and interviews with Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Noname, Prose to the People spotlights the unyielding resilience of Black bookstores.

WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

The Greater Essex County District School Board hosted its second annual Black Joy – Black Excellence Student Symposium at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts.

The Theater of Little Rock is set to captivate audiences with its upcoming production of "For Colored Girls Who Have ...

Nikki Giovanni — a renowned, award-winning poet and a leading voice in the 1960s Black Arts Movement — died in ... In dozens of poetry collections, she wrote about Black liberation and ...

Junauda Petrus, the second poet laureate of Minneapolis, plans to bring poetry to barber shops, buses and community spaces while engaging youth and elders through storytelling.

But this year's symposium featured spoken word poetry, art, dancing and a resource fair, among other things. "The students need to hear the positive things about what it means to be Black ...

At the height of the Black Arts Movement, Aunt Val established Kuumba ... Her spoken word album Rhapsody in Hughes 101, which animated the poetry of Langston Hughes through rich musical ...

The exhibition brings together visual art, live drumming, poetry, and dance to celebrate ... contemporary artists who resonate with the Black Arts Movement. We look forward to presenting ...