In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American ...

I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...

Serpell leaves no stone unturned in her deep and enriching portrait of the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre ...

Ohio Humanities and Literary Cleveland are launching "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," a yearlong initiative honoring ...

Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding ...

The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...

She’s been called “America’s Shakespeare” and one of Ohio’s “Black queens.” Wednesday kicks off a yearlong celebration of one ...

In "Beloved," Toni Morrison uses allegory and narrative structure to show the ways trauma can disrupt a life. For many sufferers of PTSD, complicated feelings accompany the prospect of relinquishing ...

Lorain Public Library hosts week of events honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author ahead of Ohio's annual Toni Morrison Day ...

Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

Youngstown State University will mix some jazz with some “Jazz” to celebrate Ohio-born author Toni Morrison. A community ...

Charles and Mildred Nilon, the first Black professor and first Black librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder, were ...