Percival Everett's latest honor comes from the country’s public libraries. On Sunday, the American Library Association ...

"African Americans and Labor" is this year's theme for Black History Month, which begins Saturday, Feb. 1. The Hinsdale ...

“Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross‘ bold adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is unlike any other Best Picture nominee this year. Told exclusively in a ...

Though born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lutz wields the English language like a polymath émigré—Nabokov if Nabokov ...

“Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross‘ bold adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is unlike any other Best Picture nominee this year. Told exclusively in a POV style, the ...

The movie, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, is adapted from the novel of the same name by author Colson Whitehead. Ellis-Taylor plays Hattie, the loving grandmother of one of the youths. She serves as ...

Previous winners of the medals, established in 2012 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, includes Donna ...

Majority of cast—as well as director/co-writer RaMell Ross—is Black. Based on a novel by Black author Colson Whitehead. Characters are sensitively portrayed, without relying on stereotypes. Most of ...

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