Angela Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA and of the Black Panthers, was tried in 1971 for supplying weapons for a courtroom takeover that ended in a bloodbath. After beating the rap, she won ...
In the summer of 2008, I was 19 years old, halfway through college, and an aspiring poet with a notebook full of earnest stanzas of questionable quality. I loved writing. I loved literature. As I ...
What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds couldn’t confront. Credit...Photo illustration by Mike McQuade Supported by ...
A recent book on her career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor. Toni Morrison, 1977. In 1979, Toni Morrison addressed the ...