4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens

December 31, 2023

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Rustin: Man behind March on Washington gets his due

November 25, 2023

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Louise Glück honed her poetic voice across a lifetime to speak to us from beyond the grave

October 28, 2023

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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