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 ...

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 ...

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

Toni Morrison’s desk — where she began writing "Beloved" while teaching at the University at Albany — is on display in the ...

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show ends in May, and he’s in almost open warfare with his soon-to-be ex-bosses at CBS. Last night, he had planned to broadcast an interview with James Talarico, a member of the ...

Ten years after the death of Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music Emeritus, the Department of Music is honoring the Pulitzer ...

Prolific Akron artist John Sokol, known for decades for his paintings, word portraits, prints, sculpture and poetry, died Feb ...

Round two, y’all know what’s going on. It’s Black History Month, and I’m here to share some awesome movies made by Black ...

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

The life and legacy of Harriet Josephine Terry, a Cornwall-born educator and founding member of the first Black sorority, was nearly lost.