AFRICAN AMERICAN REPORTS

Hello, my name is George L. Cook III. I wrote this poem, "Blood on Your Hands" in response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas and ...

In the wake of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas poet Amanda Gorman tweeted out a poem that points out the reality of gun v...

In collaboration with Instagram, Amanda Gorman on Wednesday released her new, New Year’s-based poem titled “New Day’s Lyric,” in which she...

Amanda Gorman is touting her new book as the first poetry title to land the top spot on USA Today's best-seller's list in its nea...

Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African-American woman to publish a book o...

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is gone. But her unique voice – earthy, poetic, p...

Tracy K. Smith has a long list of accomplishments, from publishing three books of poetry to winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and sh...

Gwendolyn Brooks was an award winning writer who went on to become the first African American to win a certain literary award. Learn ...

Congress held a vote today on the rather mundane subject of renaming a post office, which normally passes with all 381 votes going for t...

Normally my blog reports on issues in the African American community. In this post I would like to publicize the re-release of my new ...

In honor of the late Maya Angelou here is a 2011 recording of her at a ceremony honoring black women civil rights leaders reading he...

American icon and poet Maya Angelou had to back out of a Major League Baseball Civil Rights Game ceremony due to health issues. She...

Amiri Baraka, a poet and playwright of pulsating rage, whose long illumination of the black experience in America was called incande...