His poetry, often simple yet profoundly evocative, captures the essence of the African American experience and, by extension, ...

As one of the first African American poets to gain national recognition, Dunbar’s work traversed the complexities of racial ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

Born in New Orleans in 1812, Armand Lanusse was a free man of color who worked as an educator, editor, poet, writer and ...

The writer of the hour was C.S. Giscombe, an essayist and poet whose work spans decades and who has been awarded several ...

Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young is best known as a poet, author, essayist and editor. He has written 11 ...

African Americans were virtually imprisoned on the ... Although he abandoned his poetry, he continued to write, and Will Percy's most enduring legacy remains his autobiography, Lanterns on ...