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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings">How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s <emI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings">

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings">How Black and White America Reacted to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Scott W. Stern on the Reception of an American Classic and the Birth of a Renaissance of Black Women Writers

By Scott W. Stern | January 28, 2025

Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge.

Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge.

By Brittany Allen | January 14, 2025

How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art

Courtney Thorsson on the Emergence of a Black Feminist Literary Culture in America

By Courtney Thorsson | November 17, 2023

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

How America's Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

Tiya Miles on the Creative and Political Power of the Great Outdoors

By Tiya Miles | September 21, 2023

Toni Morrison on Craft, Inspiration, and the Time She Met Obama

Toni Morrison on Craft, Inspiration, and the Time She Met Obama

Sarah Ladipo Manyika and Mario Kaiser Talk to an American Literary Icon

By Sarah Ladipo Manyika | February 2, 2023

How Ntozake Shange wrote her first poem in 7 years—after experiencing two strokes.

How Ntozake Shange wrote her first poem in 7 years—after experiencing two strokes.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 18, 2021

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Read this newly discovered 1949 Ann Petry essay about Harlem.

By Vanessa Willoughby | October 12, 2021

Read Nella Larsen's 1922 application to the NYPL's library school.

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On Fighting For Space in the Literary World as a Black Canadian Writer

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Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love">Danielle Jackson Finds Inspiration in Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

By Danielle Jackson | January 3, 2018

Encountering the Celebrity Male Gaze

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Life in North Memphis, and the Women Who Taught Me to Read

Life in North Memphis, and the Women Who Taught Me to Read

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In Praise of Our Black Women Poets

In Praise of Our Black Women Poets

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My Heroes: On Travel Memoirs by Black Women Writers

Nneka Okona on Books that Brought Her Comfort and Courage

By Nneka Okona | October 21, 2016

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