With more local history made this week — first Black Urbana mayor elected (DeShawn Williams), first Black Champaign Central principal appointed (Montia Gardner) — we’re rebooting a question we asked ...

Those reasons coupled with the Southern black dialect Hurston used drew harsh criticism from many in the African American community, including noted authors Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.

Rashid Johnson was born in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois, and lives and works in New York. Johnson, who got his start as a photographer, works across media—including video, sculpture, painting, and ...

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September 4, Queensland's magistrates courts will see a significant number of cases, with over 1319 people set to appear at ...

Ralph Ellison’s first novel, “Invisible Man” (Random House), is an exceptionally good book and in parts an extremely funny one. That is not to say that it is without defects, but since they ...

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Andrew Lester entered his plea in a Missouri court hearing on Friday. Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man charged with shooting Ralph Yarl in April 2023 after the teenager knocked on the door of ...

However, keyboard player Richard Wright was far more complimentary about his recent listen to Piper in the anniversary interview. “I don’t think I’d played the album since its release,” he claimed, ...

When Ralph Ellison wrote on invisibility, he wasn’t just describing the Black experience in America — he was illuminating the human condition of being unseen, unheard, and misunderstood.

In this final installment of my Celebrating Black History Month series, I wanted to provide the most important, unique and ...