Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction

December 22, 2022

By: The Conversation

Ada Limón is a poet laureate for the 21st century, exploring ‘what it looks like to have America in the room’

October 1, 2022

By: The Conversation

Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature

September 29, 2022

By: The Conversation

These high school ‘classics’ have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

September 20, 2022

By: Courier Newsroom

How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanity

June 27, 2022

By: Courier Newsroom

What is Afrofuturism? An English professor explains

June 20, 2022

By: Courier Newsroom

How a Black writer in the 19th-century used humor to combat White supremacy

March 2, 2022

By: Courier Newsroom

How a mass suicide by slaves caused the legend of the flying African to take off

March 1, 2022

By: Courier Newsroom

How Mrs. Claus embodied 19th-century debates about women’s rights

December 18, 2021

By: Courier Newsroom

Harlem Book Fair presents 17th year of award-winning authors

February 5, 2015

By: Courier Newsroom