• Books of The Times: Bruce Watson’s ‘Freedom Summer’ in Mississippi

    • July 18th, 2010
    Bruce Watson looks at a tense summer and the volunteers who hoped to crack a system of segregation.  Read More →

  • Book Review – The Last Hero – A Life of Henry Aaron – By Howard Bryant

    • May 21st, 2010
    Howard Bryant’s illuminating biography of Henry Aaron shows how persistent racism was in baseball through the 1970s.  Read More →

  • Books Of the Times: ‘The Last Hero,’ Howard Bryant on Henry Aaron

    • May 9th, 2010
    Thirty-six years after Henry Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record, a proper full-dress biography has appeared.  Read More →

  • Pam Grier Tells What She’s Learned in ‘Foxy’

    • May 5th, 2010
    In a new memoir, one of blaxploitation cinema’s biggest stars tells of the loves and hardships in her life.  Read More →

  • Schomburg Center’s Director, Howard Dodson, to Retire

    • April 19th, 2010
    Howard Dodson plans to retire as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.  Read More →

  • Book Review – The Bridge – The Life and Rise of Barack Obama – By David Remnick

    • April 9th, 2010
    This study of Obama, by the editor of The New Yorker, has many additions and corrections to make to our reading of “Dreams From My Father.”  Read More →

  • Book Review | The History of White People – By Nell Irvin Painter

    • March 26th, 2010
    Nell Irvin Painter’s accessible study shows that deciding who is white has always been heavily influenced by class and culture.  Read More →

  • Conference for Black Writers at Medgar Evers College

    • March 22nd, 2010
    In the age of President Obama, when successful black writers can be found across genres, do black writers still need a conference to call their own?  Read More →

  • Willie Mays, the Say Hey Kid

    • February 26th, 2010
    This account of Willie Mays’s career concentrates on the baseball brilliance, reminding us of when the only performance-enhancing drug was joy.  Read More →

  • Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73

    • February 17th, 2010
    Ms. Clifton was a distinguished American poet whose work trained lenses wide and narrow on the experience of being black and female in the 20th century.  Read More →

  • A Crime Novelist Takes on St. Peter

    • January 27th, 2010
    Characters from Walter Mosley’s novel “The Tempest Tales” wrestle with good and evil in the author’s first play, “The Fall of Heaven.”  Read More →

  • Margaret B. Young, Black Educator and Writer, Dies at 88

    • December 18th, 2009
    Mrs. Young, the widow of the civil rights leader Whitney Young Jr., wrote several books for children on the African-American experience.  Read More →

  • One Moment in Time

    • November 27th, 2009
    The story of the 1968 Summer Olympics, when black American athletes took a stand.  Read More →

  • From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History

    • November 26th, 2009
    Claudette Colvin, who resisted unfair treatment on a Montgomery, Ala., bus nine months before Rosa Parks, lived an unheralded life until a recent book highlighted her story.  Read More →
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