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A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Ashley Bryan, Who Brought Diversity to Children’s Books, Dies at 98

Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor

‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer

As a Black Bard of the South, Randall Kenan Toppled Monuments

Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write

What African Americans Thought of Barack Obama

How Black Performance and Presence Shaped America

John McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of the Left

How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life

Jerry Pinkney, Acclaimed Children’s Book Illustrator, Dies at 81

A Sweeping New History Looks Back at 100 Years of Black Filmmaking

Albert J. Raboteau, Who Transformed Black Religious Studies, Dies at 78

Esi Edugyan Revives Black Stories, to Move the Margin Into the Center

Dasani Showed Us What It’s Like to Grow Up Homeless. She’s Still Struggling.

The Coming ‘Tsunami’ of Books on Race

Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again

On Matters of Race, Randall Kennedy Demands Thinking Over Feeling

Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind

A Triumphant Debut Novel on Black History and Coming of Age in the South