This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “Was Integration the Wrong Goal?” ...

The culture wars are heating up the stacks as more than a third of the books banned during the 2023-2024 school year featured ...

HALIFAX - Actress Aunjanue Ellis couldn't let go of "The Book of Negroes" after she had read the final words of Lawrence Hill's bestselling saga of slavery, segregation and redemption. There was ...

More than a third of books banned last year featured fictional characters or real person of color, a new analysis from PEN ...

Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.

Ibo's Landing is a novel about race; Conversations with Ted Kooser examines his career as a poet; Love in the Lowcountry is a ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

Since its founding, Books for Africa has collected and donated nearly 3,500 books to schools across the continent and raised ...