Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why ...

(The 1941 edition above resides in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ... Green printed 20,000 books annually, which were sold at black churches, the Negro ...

A wide array of books on race and gender were targeted, dealing with such topics as African American women poets, entertainers who wore blackface and the treatment of women in Islamic countries. Also ...

Despite systemic oppression and powerful politicians like Thomas Jefferson questioning her intelligence, she became the first African American – and one of the first women – in the U.S. to ...

To mark this month’s opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we interviewed folks visiting the National Mall about what they would like to ask the museum’s experts.

For me, as an African American teacher ... Doyle, editor of the American Library Association’s Banned Books, a collection of thousands of titles that have been subject to censorship challenges.

B. Bright, Possible Princess, winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award recognizing the best African-American books and writers in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children’s literature. Born in ...

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 ...