If you live in the United States, your life span largely depends on your race and ethnicity, where you live and how much ...

Nikki Giovanni, a queer Black poet, activist, educator, speaker, and public intellectual whose craft and writing on sex, love ...

Fabienne Josaphat’s genre-blending novel about members of the Black Panther Party won the Bellwether Prize in 2023.

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With her cookbook, “Our South,” Ashleigh Shanti is one of a few chefs who are focusing closely on regional cuisine — and ...

The Drum Major Alliance, along with its sibling organization Lit City, is once again offering Freedom Rides in Winston-Salem ...

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“An Appalachia Christmas” is the latest relief project organized from Schuylkill County. To date, the “Skook Road Trip Relief ...

Four Decembers ago, Vanessa Trent drove up the snow-dusted Cumberland Plateau by herself, guided by recollections of her ...

Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa's arrival. Not in a ...

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The Virginia Department of Corrections has not yet responded to complaints about what the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus calls degrading and inhumane conditions at a maximum-security prison in ...